# embednfs
[](https://crates.io/crates/embednfs)
[](https://crates.io/crates/embednfs-proto)
An embeddable NFSv4.1 server library in Rust. You implement a small filesystem trait; the library handles the wire protocol, sessions, filehandles, locking, and TCP serving.
The implementation target is Apple/macOS NFSv4.1 client compatibility first, with a localhost FUSE-replacement use case. The public API is intentionally opinionated and minimal.
## Support Boundary
This project currently makes two important non-promises:
- It does **not** guarantee correct or robust behavior over a real network. The target deployment is localhost. Running it over non-localhost transport may work in some cases, but that is not a supported or validated use case.
- It does **not** guarantee correct behavior for non-macOS clients. The implementation and live validation target the macOS kernel NFSv4.1 client and Finder workflows. Other clients may work, but they are not a compatibility target.
In short: the supported target is **macOS over localhost**.
## Architecture
This is a Cargo workspace with three crates:
- **`embednfs-proto`** — XDR encoding/decoding and NFSv4.1 protocol types
- **`embednfs`** — Embeddable server library with the filesystem traits and COMPOUND handler
- **`embednfs-cli`** — CLI/demo binary for running the server locally
## Quick Start
```rust
use embednfs::{MemFs, NfsServer};
#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> std::io::Result<()> {
let fs = MemFs::new();
let server = NfsServer::new(fs);
server.listen("127.0.0.1:2049").await
}
```
Then mount:
```bash
# macOS
mkdir -p /tmp/embednfs
mount_nfs -o vers=4.1,tcp,port=2049 127.0.0.1:/ /tmp/embednfs
```
Note: on macOS, `vers=4` means NFSv4.0. Use `vers=4.1` explicitly.
Non-macOS clients are not a supported compatibility target, even if they happen to mount successfully.
## Filesystem API
The public API is split into a small required core trait plus opt-in extension traits.
### Core Trait
```rust
use async_trait::async_trait;
use embednfs::{DirEntry, FileId, FsInfo, NfsFileSystem, NodeInfo, NfsResult};
#[async_trait]
pub trait NfsFileSystem: Send + Sync + 'static {
fn root(&self) -> FileId { 1 }
async fn stat(&self, id: FileId) -> NfsResult<NodeInfo>;
async fn lookup(&self, dir_id: FileId, name: &str) -> NfsResult<FileId>;
async fn lookup_parent(&self, id: FileId) -> NfsResult<FileId>;
async fn readdir(&self, dir_id: FileId) -> NfsResult<Vec<DirEntry>>;
async fn read(&self, id: FileId, offset: u64, count: u32) -> NfsResult<(Vec<u8>, bool)>;
async fn write(&self, id: FileId, offset: u64, data: &[u8]) -> NfsResult<u32>;
async fn truncate(&self, id: FileId, size: u64) -> NfsResult<()>;
async fn create_file(&self, dir_id: FileId, name: &str) -> NfsResult<FileId>;
async fn create_dir(&self, dir_id: FileId, name: &str) -> NfsResult<FileId>;
async fn remove(&self, dir_id: FileId, name: &str) -> NfsResult<()>;
async fn rename(
&self,
from_dir: FileId,
from_name: &str,
to_dir: FileId,
to_name: &str,
) -> NfsResult<()>;
fn fs_info(&self) -> FsInfo {
FsInfo::default()
}
}
```
Core types:
- `NodeInfo { kind, size }` is the only required per-node metadata
- `DirEntry { fileid, name }` is the only required directory-entry payload
- `FileId` identifies real filesystem objects only; the server synthesizes attrdirs, named-attr files, and other protocol-only objects internally
### Extension Traits
The server will use these when present:
- `NfsNamedAttrs` for macOS named attributes / xattrs / named streams
- `NfsSymlinks` for `CREATE symlink` and `READLINK`
- `NfsHardLinks` for `LINK`
- `NfsSync` for explicit `COMMIT`
If an extension trait is absent, the server returns the appropriate NFS unsupported/type errors and does not advertise the feature where that matters.
## Apple-Focused Operation Support
Implemented for normal Apple/macOS client flows:
- `EXCHANGE_ID`, `CREATE_SESSION`, `SEQUENCE`, `DESTROY_SESSION`, `DESTROY_CLIENTID`
- `PUTROOTFH`, `PUTFH`, `GETFH`, `LOOKUP`, `LOOKUPP`, `SAVEFH`, `RESTOREFH`
- `GETATTR`, `ACCESS`, `OPEN`, `CLOSE`, `OPEN_DOWNGRADE`
- `READ`, `WRITE`, `COMMIT`, `READDIR`, `SETATTR`
- `CREATE` for directories and symlinks
- `REMOVE`, `RENAME`
- `LOCK`, `LOCKT`, `LOCKU`
- `SECINFO_NO_NAME`
- `OPENATTR`
- `NVERIFY`
- `RECLAIM_COMPLETE`, `FREE_STATEID`
Supported through extensions:
- `READLINK`
- `LINK`
- macOS named-attribute and xattr flows behind `OPENATTR`
Kept as cheap compatibility ops:
- `SECINFO`
- `PUTPUBFH`
- `VERIFY`
- `TEST_STATEID`
- `DELEGPURGE`
- `BIND_CONN_TO_SESSION`
- `DELEGRETURN`
Explicitly unsupported:
- `BACKCHANNEL_CTL`
- `GETDEVICEINFO`, `GETDEVICELIST`
- `GET_DIR_DELEGATION`
- `LAYOUTGET`, `LAYOUTRETURN`, `LAYOUTCOMMIT`
- `SET_SSV`
- `WANT_DELEGATION`
Rejected in NFSv4.1 because they are v4.0-only:
- `OPEN_CONFIRM`
- `RENEW`
- `SETCLIENTID`
- `SETCLIENTID_CONFIRM`
- `RELEASE_LOCKOWNER`
## Testing
```bash
cargo clippy --workspace
cargo test --workspace
```
The integration suite exercises the full RPC path over TCP and includes raw `OPENATTR`/named-attribute flows for macOS-style clients.
## License
MIT