Best way of mounting network shares - Linux

Hey guys

I am not sitting with a specific problem. It's more of an enquiry about some features.

I am in the process of upgrading my home system (computer part of the system anyway), and this means that my setup will have to change. Currently I have a small Microserver which has local disks with content, and the library therefore is easy to set up. I am changing this though. I am getting a small Mac Mini which will either have Fedora 20 of CentOS 6.5 on it, an Serviio running on there. Then I want to purchase a NAS device with all the disks. In your experience, what's the best way of doing this? Mounting shares on local mount points on the Mini Mac (Samba), or adding the shared folder location (the path to the NAS) directly into Serviio?

If I understand correctly Serviio will see these folders in different ways? My thoughts are if I mount them locally via Samba and add them from the local mount point, permissions will not be an issue, and Serviio will run as if it is local disks?

Any "potholes" I have to be aware of in creating such a setup?

Thanks in advance!

[Iveky]

i setup fedora with 3 local drives, in future i will add fourth instead of dvd-rom, no more space inside. i prefer that way.
beware (make your own startup script) that you dont start serviio if nas is not reachable (offline). serviio will remove things from library and add them again later when nas is online, so maybe better not start it?

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beware (make your own startup script) that you dont start serviio if nas is not reachable (offline). serviio will remove things from library and add them again later when nas is online, so maybe better not start it?

Thanks! That is a very good point well made! Hmmm, will think of a way for Fedora to "test" NAS connectivity before launchin Serviio. Anyone with such a script is MORE than welcome to post their's I will gladly use that one instead!

[Iveky]

i think, during boot, fedora several times checks fstab to mount drives. i mount some nfs shares and noticed that (press esc during boot to see messages).
will write some script for ya tomorrow if you still need it...


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[Iveky]

this is part of my dd-wrt startup script, take this idea and modify it to check already mounted network shares, here I check if some folder is already mounted

  Code:

#!/bin/sh
if mount | grep /opt > /dev/null; then
  echo "/opt already mounted"
else
  mount -o bind,noatime /tmp/mnt/sda1/opt /opt
fi