We built a Rust implementation of NFS to accomplish the same thing!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37573679

This lets you:

- Mount a Git repo + branch state to a folder: `git xet mount https://xethub.com/XetHub/LAION-400M.git --prefetch 0`

- Analyze parquet files using DuckDb:

`import duckdb`

`duckdb.query("select COUNT() from 'data/.parquet'")`