On 29/12/2011 15:23, Marc Deop wrote: > On Thursday 29 December 2011 14:35:34 Daniel Bird wrote: >> retry=n The number of minutes to retry an NFS mount operation in the >> foreground or background before giving up. The default >> value for forground mounts is 2 minutes. The default >> value for background mounts is 10000 minutes, which is roughly >> one week. >> >> So retry=2 would give the same behavior on background mounts as >> foreground mounts I reckon. > Have you tried this? I'd love to know if it really works. I've got it down to a reasonable timeout (1m 30 sec) now with these options proto=udp,timeo=1,retrans=0,retry=1,intr,soft,bg with proto=tcp it's about 4mins.... > > You could as well try automount with your nfs shares... Yes, that is an option. We use it for some services. Cheers D