Yeah, fstab but with systemd handling the mounts which works way better than ... however that worked before:

# SSHFS from varangian
drew@192.168.1.70:/mnt/big /mnt/big fuse.sshfs noauto,x-systemd.automount,_netdev,user,idmap=user,follow_symlinks,identityfile=/home/drew/.ssh/id_rsa,allow_other,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0

 

NFS is way quicker, and setup isn't too hard between unixy os (linux, mac/bsd). A bit less automagic than SAMBA.

Setup was fine, it just needed to be restarted every few days which was a pain. Couldn't be arsed to dig into it since it was overkill for what I needed anyway.