Chris Collins

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Chris Collins
Ewa Beach, Hawaii

Chris Collins is an SRE at Red Hat and an OpenSource.com Correspondent with a passion for automation, container orchestration and the ecosystems around them, and likes to recreate enterprise-grade technology at home for fun. Prior to working at Red Hat, he spent thirteen years with Duke University, variously as a Linux systems administrator, web hosting architecture and team lead, and an automation engineer. In his free time, Chris enjoys Dwarf Fortress, brewing beer, woodworking, and being a general-purpose geek.

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You can limit your exports list to only hosts you wish to mount the shares. If you're concerned the router is tracking traffic in transit, that's a larger issue anyway. In my own lab, I have my own router handling the networking and the ISP router only handles the traffic into and out of the network.

I'm not sure I follow how you have it set up. What is the need for NFS shares if you're using sshfs?

Either way, though, use what works for you! I have done both. With sshfs, you get the benefit of encryption, even with your network. I think NFS is easier to manage. They both have benefits.