> as can be seen by anyone who's tried to ctrl+c any app that's reading from a broken NFS folder
Theoretically "intr" mounts allowed signals to interrupt operations waiting on a hung remote server, but Linux removed the option long ago[1] (FreeBSD still supports it)[2]. "soft" might be the only workaround on Linux.
Theoretically "intr" mounts allowed signals to interrupt operations waiting on a hung remote server, but Linux removed the option long ago[1] (FreeBSD still supports it)[2]. "soft" might be the only workaround on Linux.
[1]: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/nfs.5.html
[2]: https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mount_nfs&sektion=...