I was just wondering if there’s a network protocol that supports BFS file attributes, on wich Haiku can rely its file sharing between Haiku’s machines. I found annoying zipping a file (or more) and send it through conventional methods.
Am I missing some “features”?
Having this feature implemented means a native cloud storage or sharing a remote drive. It would be nice to install Haiku restoring a session with all its attributes.
However, the https://github.com/jfriesne/muscle repo shows a much newer version of the protocol server than HaikuDepot shows. Is the protocol the same today in version 9.0.1 as it was back in version 6?
Edit
I’ll have to see if the new version builds. I’ll try it later on.
Haiku ships with NetFS which does just that. Perfect for server-less local file sharing like Windows does with SMB or Linux with NFS.
We also have some support for NFS with attributes, but I think it is incompatible with Linux NFS servers (so the server would have to run Solaris, probably?)