[joushou]

It doesn't put more trust in the network than NBD or NFS does. You don't access your root filesystem over a 3G connection or a flakey VPN on any platform. But, if you mount a remote filesystem that isn't root, disconnecting isn't fatal, you just have to reconnect when the connection is back (aan can handle that).

[swiley]

One of the plan9 users put a lot of work into a terminal boot disk that supports rootfs over flakey connections. Also, last I checked I believe 9front supports mounting root over AAN which supports roaming between networks and flakey connections.