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by the8472 1191 days ago
They have NFS (called EFS), but it's about 10x more expensive.
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acdha 1191 days ago
I wouldn’t give a number because the pricing models are fairly different and the real cost will depend on how you’re using it and how easy it is to shift your access patterns. On my apps using EFA, that 10x is more like .8-1.1x — an easy call versus rewriting a bunch of code.
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netfortius 1191 days ago
Good luck mounting EFS in Windows.
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e12e 1190 days ago
Apparently the nfs client in windows only supports nfs v3 - while efs only supports v4. The closest I found was:

http://citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/windows/readme.html

Seems odd that there are no commercial nfs v4 clients for windows? Might now be possible to mount via wsl?

I see ractos has nfs client - but could not figure out which version...

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profquail 1190 days ago
WinFsp (FUSE for Windows) has an NFS driver: https://github.com/winfsp/nfs-win
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mdaniel 1191 days ago
Do you mean EFS specifically, or you find that NFS doesn't work? Because it was my recollection that Windows included NFS machinery natively
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netfortius 1190 days ago
EFS - this is what is being talked about here.
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otterley 1190 days ago
AWS also offers FSx for Windows File Server, and FSx for ONTAP if you need remote Windows file service.
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netfortius 1190 days ago
We are talking about EFS here
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