[aloukissas]

This is fantastic! Interestingly, I was one of the early engineers at Maginatics [1], a company that built exactly this in 2011 - and Netflix was one of our earliest beta customers. We strived to be both SMB3 and POSIX compatible, but leaning into SMB3 semantics. We had some pretty great optimizations that gave almost local disk performance (e.g. using file and directory leases [2], async metadata ops, data and metadata caching, etc). EFS was just coming out at that point (Azure I think also had something similar in the works).

I'll be looking closely in what you're building!

[1] https://www.dell.com/en-us/blog/welcoming-spanning-maginatic...

[2] https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/maginatics-sdcdwl/39257...

[huntaub]

Awesome! Great to meet you, so happy that so many folks in the space are here.