→ hanewin NFS Client – Excellent protocol support, lower cost.
| Feature | Native (Windows 10 Pro) | Requirement for many users | |---------|------------------------|----------------------------| | NFSv3 | Yes | Baseline | | NFSv4 / v4.1 | No | ID mapping, Kerberos, compound procedures | | pNFS (parallel NFS) | No | High-throughput workloads | | Kerberos (RPCSEC_GSS) | No | Secure enterprise environments | | UTF-8 filenames | Partial (locale dependent) | International teams | | Symlinks | Yes (but as reparse points) | Linux compatibility | | File locking (NLM) | Yes | Shared databases | | Mount persistence | Via mount -o persistent | Reboot recovery | 3rd party nfs client for windows 10
| 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 | → hanewin NFS Client – Excellent protocol support,
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\NFS\NFSV3\UTF8Enabled = 1 (DWORD) 3rd party nfs client for windows 10
→ NFSaxe – Simple, free, works for media streaming.
→ NetDrive – Only if NFS performance is non-critical.