Answered Questions

  • What is difference between Hard and Soft mount?

    tdr

    • Feb 10th, 2016

    Hard mounts can be, and very often are, used with autofs as well. To most users, there is virtually no difference between the two except that if "intr" is not added as a mount option with hard nfs mo...

    Petratch

    • Aug 24th, 2011

    NFS supports two types of mounts -- hard mounts and soft mounts. If a mount is a hard mount, an NFS request affecting any part of the mounted resource is issued repeatedly until the request is satisfi...