[PLUG] What is /exports/users for?

[David Barr]

I ~was~ going to point to it in the LFHS, but I was thinking of /mnt... (http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/index.html) In any case, it's non-standard.

If I were to guess, /exports is the FS set aside for for NFS-Server. That is, the material on this server that gets exported via NFS lives in this FS. Since NFS can (much more easily now) be limited at the filesystem level, that reduces the chances that a Bad Actor can cross the NFS-exported filesystem boundary.

But, none of that is relevant to your question, really, unless you're deliberately exporting all of your attached removable devices...

David

> On Jun 15, 2018, at 6:08 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> wrote:
> 
> I just discovered that I have a new folder labeled /exports/users that
> contains folders for all the currently attached removable devices,
> including my NAS. These devices also appear at /media/jjj, as they
> always have. I can write or delete files on these devices from either
> location, either with the GUI (Thunar) or the command line.
> 
> Why is it necessary for devices to appear in two places? Whose idea was
> this?
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