I keep mine in /var/samba, for historical reasons.

On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 8:52 AM, Kenneth Gober <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Alessandro DE LAURENZIS <
> [email protected]> 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

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