Try with the soft option. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Casey" <michaelcasey73 at gmail.com> To: centos at centos.org Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 2:06:31 PM GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Bern / Rome / Stockholm / Vienna Subject: [CentOS] if no NFS server clients are waiting.. What can I do, If the NFS server is rebooting/offline? I mean the clients just wait and wait and wait... I tried to set timeo=5,retrans=2 mount options when mounting nfs in fstab on client side = still no luck, clients are just waiting... Can I set a timeout somewhere? :D Thank you for any tips