- Working on a code on a remote server?
- Slow network with high latencies?
- sshfs/nfs/samba too slow?
- Heavy client-side caching.
- The whole served tree is preloaded - fast browsing.
- Read files are kept in the memory.
- Remote invalidations.
- Files/directories can be modified on the server side. Changes are propagated to the client.
- Auto reconnect.