Anyway, interesting idea. As another comment pointed out, I wish there was an easy way to mount NFS and 9p shares as a user.
I've been toying with 9p+Wireguard lately, as an alternative to SMB/Webdav/sftp/etc for sharing files with friends over the Internet. Wireguard+NFS works well enough, but it's relatively hard to integrate in userspace. Toying with rust-9p[1], I obtained acceptable performance. I still have to experiment with putting Wireguard in userspace as well (probably with Tailscale's implementation), but I come back to the difficulty of mounting 9p and NFS shares as a user. I also wish it was simpler to export directories over both protocols, on an unprivileged port, with access rights limited by those of the user.
Regarding the article content, I find 9p to be even simpler and probably more ubiquitous than NFS, though I don't know if MacOS and Windows natively support it.
If you haven't seen it, Cloudflare also has an implementation of Wireguard in userspace, called Boringtun [0], written in Rust and successfully deployed to millions of iOS and Android devices running the 1.1.1.1 app.
For reference, another Rust project that depends on Boringtun is Onetun [1], which uses it to encrypt packets sent over a virtual smoltcp interface. I imagine you could follow a similar approach to integrating rust-9p with Boringtun, and you wouldn't need to leave the Rust ecosystem (whereas you might face more obstacles integrating it with Tailscale's wgengine, which is written in Go).
Anyway, interesting idea. As another comment pointed out, I wish there was an easy way to mount NFS and 9p shares as a user.
Add e.g. foo.bar.com:/path /net/foo.bar.com nfs to /etc/fstab with options=user ?
Regarding the article content, I find 9p to be even simpler and probably more ubiquitous than NFS, though I don't know if MacOS and Windows natively support it.
Windows certainly does not. MacOS I don't know, but if you mean "natively" as "stock install without third-party software", then probably not.
Actually, scratch that, comments below suggest that WSL2 uses 9P for file sharing with the host, so it's possible that a version of Windows with the WSL2 bits installed will support 9P.
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Anyway, interesting idea. As another comment pointed out, I wish there was an easy way to mount NFS and 9p shares as a user.
I've been toying with 9p+Wireguard lately, as an alternative to SMB/Webdav/sftp/etc for sharing files with friends over the Internet. Wireguard+NFS works well enough, but it's relatively hard to integrate in userspace. Toying with rust-9p[1], I obtained acceptable performance. I still have to experiment with putting Wireguard in userspace as well (probably with Tailscale's implementation), but I come back to the difficulty of mounting 9p and NFS shares as a user. I also wish it was simpler to export directories over both protocols, on an unprivileged port, with access rights limited by those of the user.
Regarding the article content, I find 9p to be even simpler and probably more ubiquitous than NFS, though I don't know if MacOS and Windows natively support it.
[1]: https://github.com/pfpacket/rust-9p
If you haven't seen it, Cloudflare also has an implementation of Wireguard in userspace, called Boringtun [0], written in Rust and successfully deployed to millions of iOS and Android devices running the 1.1.1.1 app.
For reference, another Rust project that depends on Boringtun is Onetun [1], which uses it to encrypt packets sent over a virtual smoltcp interface. I imagine you could follow a similar approach to integrating rust-9p with Boringtun, and you wouldn't need to leave the Rust ecosystem (whereas you might face more obstacles integrating it with Tailscale's wgengine, which is written in Go).
[0] https://github.com/cloudflare/boringtun
[1] https://github.com/aramperes/onetun
Add e.g. foo.bar.com:/path /net/foo.bar.com nfs to /etc/fstab with options=user ?
Windows certainly does not. MacOS I don't know, but if you mean "natively" as "stock install without third-party software", then probably not.
Actually, scratch that, comments below suggest that WSL2 uses 9P for file sharing with the host, so it's possible that a version of Windows with the WSL2 bits installed will support 9P.