Control NFS exported filesystems

[John P. Eisenmenger]

>From article <91169.000329CALT at SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>, by CALT at SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU:
> By exprience, I learned that mounting NFS filesystems by the
> hard/foreground options may cause the machines hanging, while
> by the soft/backgroud options seems to work OK.

Hmm.. I usually mount hard,bg,intr and have had no problems.  In general
I use hard mounts for read-write mounts and soft mounts for read-only
mounts.  Putting the mount in the background will prevent the client from
waiting indefinitely for the mount to complete...

-John