Re: NFS client permanent mount points under /mnt?

[Johnny Billquist <bqt%update.uu.se@localhost>]

For your question, the answer is essentially "where it fits".

If you, for example have the netbsd source tree available over NFS, the 
reasonable place to mount it would be under /usr/src
If you have user home directories over NFS, /home might be a good place.

It does not make sense to have a generic universal mount point for all 
different file systems you might want to mount. NFS or otherwise. Are 
you also mounting all disk file systems under some specific point in 
your file system?

/mnt is indeed a mount point I use for random system work when I just 
need some convenient mount point for temporary messing around.

Since I almost never use the automounter, I don't know where I'd place 
such stuff, but /net sounds as good as anything.
I wonder if I might have seen /auto used for that in the past.

  Johnny

On 2019-07-25 22:50, J. Lewis Muir wrote:
> Hi, all!
>
> I'm wondering, what's the best location for a client machine to
> permanently mount NFS remote file systems?
>
> I was thinking
>
>    /mnt/<name>
>
> or maybe (but I'm less convinced that encoding the type of the remote
> file system in the path is a good idea):
>
>    /mnt/nfs/<name>
>
> However, in hier(7)
>
>    https://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?hier++NetBSD-current
>
> it says
>
>    /mnt/      Empty directory commonly used by system administrators as a
>               temporary mount point.
>
> The phrase "as a temporary mount point" sounds to me like /mnt is
> intended to remain empty and only be used by a system administrator as a
> mount point when they need to temporarily mount a file system manually
> and then presumably unmount it when no longer needed.
>
> I would like an appropriate (i.e., best practice) location where I can
> permanently mount remote file systems.  Where should these go?  Or is
> hier(7) just saying what /mnt is commonly used for, and if I used it for
> something else, that would be considered fine?  I could even create an
> empty /mnt/tmp, for example, to ensure that there still is a good place
> for a system administrator to temporarily mount a file system if needed.
>
> Also in hier(7) is
>
>    /net/      automounted NFS shares; see auto_master(5)
>
> That's clearly a good place, but it means using the automounter.  I was
> hoping to not use the automounter, but perhaps I could if that's really
> the best thing to do.
>
> I haven't looked into the automounter, so maybe it's easy to do, but
> in one case, I'm needing to have a parent directory that contains the
> mount-point subdirectory because I need to ensure that the permissions
> are set to 0550 on the parent directory to prevent read access by other
> users on the client machine to any files in the mounted remote tree that
> have their other-read bit set.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Lewis


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