sudo apt-get install cifs-utils
sudo mkdir -p /mnt/azure
sudo mount -t cifs //<storageaccount>.file.core.windows.net/<file-share-name> /mnt/azure/ -o vers=3.0,username=<storageaccount>,password=<base64-encoded>,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777,serverino

time for i in $(seq 1 500); do echo "hello!" > /mnt/azure/hello.txt; done

real    0m20.673s
user    0m0.032s
sys     0m0.124s

time for i in $(seq 1 500); do echo "hello!" > hello.txt; done

real    0m0.031s
user    0m0.004s
sys     0m0.024s