steamdeck SteamOS feature request: NFS support

[abriellafiel]

Steamdeck SteamOS is missing the tools to mount NFS shares.

[p.nowacki90]

+1
Dolphin is apparently bugged and mounting nfs shares is impossible through dolphin and necessary binaries are missing. Mounting SMB shares is possible and I don't know why NFS shares are treated differently

[With dread but cautious optimism]

NFS is a pretty terrible and hard to secure protocol, I mean I'm sure if you on here and talking about it you have a pretty good idea of what's going on, but still probably don't use NFS unless you have a really good reason to.

I understand that could be frustrating if you already have a bunch of NFS infrastructure in places, but it is pretty hard to do NFS in a way that's actually secure, for either the client or server. Unless you're a large enterprise I'd avoid NFS, the performance isn't actually even really better than unencrypted SMB or SFTP...

https://blog.ja-ke.tech/2019/08/27/nas-performance-sshfs-nfs-smb.html

The takeaway is, just use SFTP.

[abriellafiel]

The choice SMB vs NFS vs SFTP for a server is a different matter. The steamdeck should just let you access the shares on an NFS server if you need to. Most linux distributions have this capability: it is generally built into their default kernel and you just have to install a package like nfs-common to get the mount.nfs command. Now with steamos you cannot install any system packages by default due to the readonly filesystem so it would make sense to provide such basic features in the default OS image.

[ignacio82]

Did anyone figured out how to mount a NFS share in a steam deck?

[edgecrush3r]

Its crazy that NFS is not supported. If you need quick access to a remote steam library this would certainly be better than cifs/smb

[lauzis]

Yeah.... mounting nfs share would be awesome. I dont need NFS server on the steamdeck itself. But to mount NFS share would be usefull for me. As i plan to backup to NFS share in local network

[Croquanbulle]

Adding my vote for this feature, I don't understand why it isn't there by default. I understand that a AAA game might not work over a network share but for retro gaming it would be the best way to access all of your games. I can see many other use cases like other users already mentioned here. It doesn't make sense to prioritize SMB share implementation over NFS share since SteamOS is Linux.

[jon101]

NFS is supported, I now use my steam deck as a home theatre PC..mounts my films share no problem.