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Sergey Babkin wrote:
> I usually use "soft,bg". The "soft" option makes the
> operations on this filesystem fail if the server
> is not available instead of hanging (unkillable!)
> forever and waiting for the server to come up.

Good tip thanks!

    Steve


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