An interesting discussion with some other administrators: SethK: A lot of people hate NFS for various reasons, but I think it all boils down to not using soft,intr,bg in the mountopts. soft = syscalls fail after a timeout instead of hanging forever waiting for the server to come back online
intr = syscalls can be interrupted
bg = background the mount if the server is not immediately available
All of those things combined pretty much saves you from all of the nastiness of NFS hangs. AdamB?: Is bg a bad option? SethK: Depends whether the mount is "critical" or not. If it's required to start other services at boot, then it should probably not be bg. If you need the machine to be responsive even when NFS isn't available, it should be bg.
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