For folks' context, the new tool that's being discussed in the thread mentioned by the parent here is litefs [0], as well as which you can also look at rqlite [1] and dqlite [2], which all provide different trade-offs (e.g. rqlite is 'more strongly consistent' than litefs).
[0]: https://github.com/superfly/litefs
[1]: https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite
[2]: https://github.com/canonical/dqlite