> You can soft mount instead of hard mount - then you get a timeout resulting
> in an I/O error, instead of indefinite waiting for the server to reappear.

I'll give that a try. Hard mounts causes all sorts of problems;
though I've only started to notice the problems of late.

Are there any other disadvantages to soft mounts?

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