Bold - a Network File System (NFS) server

This is Bold. A version 4-series compatible NFS server written in async Rust based on Tokio.

NFS is the most widely used network file system for production server workloads.

(This is a Bold claim)

Goals

Bold's design goals are:

simplicity
robustness
portability
extendability
performance

Anti goals include complicated compile-time computations, such as macro or type trickery.

Demo and testing

There is a binary bold-mem (in /exec), which reads in a YAML file and serves this as in-memory file system.

On Linux:

# bold-mem/memoryfs.yaml
name: 
contents:
  - !Dir
    name: home
    contents:
      - !Dir
        name: user
        contents:
          - !File
            name: file1
            contents: |
              This is the content of file1
          - !File
            name: file2
            contents: |
              This is the content of file2

You can compile and run it from the repo:

cargo run -p bold-mem -- --debug exec/memoryfs.yam (optionally, you can enable the --debug flag)
Open another terminal
mkdir /tmp/demo
sudo mount.nfs4 -n -v -o fg,soft,sec=none,vers=4.0,port=11112 127.0.0.1:/ /tmp/demo
ls /tmp/demo/, cat /tmp/demo/home/user/file1 (have a look around in your mounted file system)
Copy files from your local computer into the mounted file system and retrive it back
Don't forget to unmount sudo umount /tmp/demo, before stopping bold-mem