nfsdiag
A NFS diagnostic application
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HN · launched May 2, 2026 · 83 upvotes (top 11%) · 2 views
Niche: network monitoring and diagnostics tools · 193 launches, 11 in the last 7 days ▼ -35% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Observability & eval
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Partial A real NFS diagnostic utility requires network packet inspection (RPC/XDR decoding) and deep understanding of the Network File System RFCs and Linux VFS internals.
What it would actually take: Typically written in C, Go, or Rust, capturing network packets via libpcap or interfacing with Linux tracepoints/eBPF to inspect NFS mount performance, latency, and RPC call state machines. The hard part is parsing low-level XDR/RPC protocols and translating raw kernel metrics into actionable diagnostic insights, requiring deep network storage expertise.
Discussion
6 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: NFS, GPFS, Lustre
Concerns raised: NFS centralized single point of failure, NFS lacks simple HA solution
Feature requests: Support for GPFS, Support for Lustre
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 3690 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #381 of 3691 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 185 days after the earliest competitor.
- SiClaw · hn · 2026-03-08 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- FSM · hn · 2026-06-28 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Portview · hn · 2026-02-10 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- sdbench · github · 2026-10-19 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- nxnative-gui · github · 2026-10-26 · 58 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- redteam-bofs · github · 2026-10-09 · 54 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- helios-sentinel · github · 2026-11-05 · 51 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Portview, A diagnostic-first port viewer for Linux (~930 KB, zero deps) · hn · 2026-02-08 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.55
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