Armbian NFS Server

This is usually a question of overhead. NFS has less CPU overhead and faster speeds circa 2023, and anecdotal testing showed fewer issues with common clients like VLC, Infuse and Kodi. However, there’s no advertisement¹ like SMB has, so you have to pre-configure all clients.

This is the basic config for an anonymous, read-only share.

apt install nfs-kernel-server

echo "/mnt/pool *(fsid=0,ro,all_squash,no_subtree_check)" >> /etc/exports

exportfs -rav