What are some best practices in mounting NAS shares that you all follow?

Currently I am mounting using fstab to my user’s home directory with full rwx permissions, but that feels wrong.

I’ve read to use the mnt directory or the media directory but opinions differ.

My main concern is I want to protect against inadvertently deleting the contents of the NAS with an errant rm command. And yes I have backups of my NAS too.

Edit: this is a home NAS with 1 user on this Linux PC (the other clients being windows and Mac systems)

Would love to hear everyone’s philosophy! Thanks!

  • @danA
    4•7 months ago

    If you want the lowest latency, you could try NBD. It’s a block protocol but with less overhead compared to iSCSI. https://github.com/NetworkBlockDevice/nbd/tree/master

    Like iSCSI, it exposes a disk image file, or a raw partition if you’d like (by using something like /dev/sda3 or /dev/mapper/foo as the file name). Unlike iSCSI, it’s a fairly basic protocol (the API is literally only 9 commands). iSCSI is essentially just regular SCSI over the network.

    NFS and SMB have to deal with file locks, multiple readers and writers concurrently accessing the same file, permissions, etc. That can add a little bit of overhead. With iSCSI and NBD, it assumes only one client is using the file (because it’s impossible for two clients to use the same disk image at the same time - it’ll get corrupted) and it’s just reading and writing raw data.