MountedSSHStore: stores on shared filesystems

src/libstore/mounted-ssh-store.md

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+**Store URL format**: `mounted-ssh-ng://[username@]hostname`
+
+Experimental store type that allows full access to a Nix store on a remote machine,
+and additionally requires that store be mounted in the local file system.
+
+The mounting of that store is not managed by Nix, and must by managed manually.
+It could be accomplished with SSHFS or NFS, for example.
+
+The local file system is used to optimize certain operations.
+For example, rather than serializing Nix archives and sending over the Nix channel,
+we can directly access the file system data via the mount-point.
+
+The local file system is also used to make certain operations possible that wouldn't otherwise be.
+For example, persistent GC roots can be created if they reside on the same file system as the remote store:
+the remote side will create the symlinks necessary to avoid race conditions.
+)"