[Spivak]

Sorry for the rant, obviously NFS is fine for a homelab.

Nobody should use NFS ever if it can be avoided. Run screaming. The entire idea of “remote file system that is transparent to applications that just write files normally” fundamentally just does not work on Linux. There is too much software that assumes the characteristics and reliability of local filesystems like ext4 and xfs and there not enough control exposed by the kernel to handle when things go wrong. It’s the wrong layer.

Remote block storage as well as application layer object storage work really really well but the filesystem APIs are a mess intertwined with so many different parts of the system and assumptions made 40 years ago.