On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Alessandro DE LAURENZIS < just22....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Folks, > > still unclear after reading the hier man page where is the most suitable > node for a NFS server export directory. > as far as I know there's no standard for this. I have been using /nfs, in a vaguely similar way to how /afs is used for AFS, but only because I dedicate a filesystem to NFS when I use it (and mount that filesystem as /nfs). when it is practical to do so, I use /nfs for both the server side and the client side -- on the server I have an /nfs filesystem which may contain an exported directory /nfs/foo, and on the client side I either have another /nfs filesystem (if it's a peer server with exports of its own) or an /nfs folder in the root filesystem (for a client-only machine); in either case /nfs then contains an /nfs/foo mount point. in this way the absolute pathname to the 'foo' volume is always the same regardless of whether you're on the client or server. -ken
