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NFS
Raised as a usability problem by 15 people on Hacker News over 18 years (2009–2026), in 14 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
- 1Harder to configure compared to NFS v3Unreviewed
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Harder to configure compared to NFS v3Unreviewed
20092026- Hard to configure compared to NFS v32025-01-13
- NFS is very slow to use, unlike Samba which is fast2022-02-24
- Commercial NFS product was too hard to configure, so they reimplemented it2009-05-13
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 15 complaints
- Needs several config files, matching account IDs, root mounting, and hangs on lost connection2026-04-29
- NFS auth setup with Kerberos is too complex to complete2026-02-02
- Takes several hours of trial and error to get working unless you already know it2025-10-05
- User-id mapping is hard to set up, requiring NIS, so the commenter abandoned it2025-10-05
- Apps hang on broken NFS mounts and Ctrl+C does not interrupt them2025-07-18
- Hard to configure compared to NFS v32025-01-13
- When the network fails, everything touching the mount freezes until it recovers2023-05-02
- Processes hang on network drops and can only be killed by restarting2022-06-21
- NFS is very slow to use, unlike Samba which is fast2022-02-24
- Makes redeploying the cluster from scratch hard2020-07-26
- Hard to configure, hangs unpredictably, needs many ports and matching UIDs2020-02-10
- Atomic write pattern makes readers get stale file handles and ESTALE errors2018-11-29
- Desktop locks up completely when the NFS server becomes unavailable2017-03-03
- No saved card, so each domain purchase requires pulling out wallet2011-07-12
- Commercial NFS product was too hard to configure, so they reimplemented it2009-05-13