In message <20041109030840.GA879@panix.com>Thor Lancelot Simon writes

>Why should your use case take precedence over mine?

Thor, 

Partly from curiosity, partly devils-advocate:

Suppose NetBSD supported NFS with GSSAPI authentication (also
sometimes calle "secure NFS"), and you had local /etc/krb5.keytab
files with tickets on your clients (for root to do mounts at
boot-time) and server (to authenticate the server to clients). Suppose
further that this hypothetical NFS used opencrypto(9), with support
for ~cheap accelerators.

How would that meet your needs?