Topic: nfs

• Mounting NFS shares robustly: hard versus soft, timeo, and what happens when the server disappears

  The default hard mount option makes an NFS client retry indefinitely and block the calling process when the server is unreachable — usually the right choice, but it means an unresponsive server hangs commands like df or ls until it comes back. x-systemd.automount or nofail keep an unreachable server from hanging the boot.

  methodology · en · reviewed · knowledge as of 2026-09-24

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