That's nice to know, it seems that we have the "hard" configuration at the lab a...

EwanToo · on March 7, 2013

Not sure what your lab's trying to be backwards compatible with (NFS has had those mount options since at least 1989), but whatever works for you :)

It's a mount option on the client, not the server, so maybe you can change it yourself.

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1094.txt

ominous_prime · on March 7, 2013

In a lot of cases, hard is what you want. Some systems can't deal with fs errors very well, and it's better to wait than to risk data inconsistencies.