if no NFS server clients are waiting..

[Rick Stevens]

Michael Casey wrote:
> the fstab entry is this
> 
> vim /etc/fstab
> 192.168.1.1:/mnt/share/ /home/user/Desktop/Share/ nfs
> defaults,ro,nfsvers=3,nolock 0 0

By default, NFS mounts are "hard" so if the server goes bye-bye the
client will lock up until the server comes back.

Try adding "soft,retrans=6" to the mount options:

	defaults,ro,nfsvers=3,nolock,soft,retrans=6

See if that helps.  Oh, and you might want to try doing TCP rather than
the default UDP (add "tcp" to the options).
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