For Windows 10 - 3rd Party Nfs Client

| Client | Throughput (read MB/s) | Throughput (write MB/s) | Metadata ops/sec (ls -lR) | Lock contention (100 threads) | NFS version | |--------|------------------------|-------------------------|----------------------------|-------------------------------|-------------| | Native Windows | 890 | 420 | 320 | Fails after 50 | NFSv3 | | Hummingbird | 1180 | 610 | 1050 | Stable | NFSv4.1 | | hanewin | 1050 | 580 | 970 | Stable | NFSv4.1 | | NFSaxe | 750 | 380 | 210 | Fails after 20 | NFSv3 | | NetDrive | 310 | 120 | 80 | Not supported | NFSv3 |

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→ NetDrive – Only if NFS performance is non-critical. | Client | Throughput (read MB/s) | Throughput

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\NFS\NFSV3\UTF8Enabled = 1 (DWORD) 3rd party nfs client for windows 10

# Enable NFS client (as admin) dism /online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:ServicesForNFS-ClientOnly /All mount -o anon -o mtype=hard \192.168.1.100\export Z:

Native Windows NFSv3 struggles with high lock contention due to NLM design limits. NFSv4.1 clients avoid this via server-side leases. | Client | Kerberos (krb5/krb5i/krb5p) | AUTH_SYS | SPNEGO | Credential storage | |--------|------------------------------|----------|--------|--------------------| | Native | No | Yes | No | Registry (plain UID) | | Hummingbird | Yes (all 3) | Yes | Yes | Windows Credential Manager | | hanewin | Yes (krb5, krb5i) | Yes | Yes | Encrypted config | | NFSaxe | No | Yes | No | Plain text (uid/gid) | | NetDrive | No | Yes | No | Obfuscated in registry |

Appendix B: Registry fix for UTF-8 filename support in native NFS