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The mount command hangs indefinitely if there are no
nfsd daemons running on the NFS server.
This happens when there is no /etc/dfs/dfstab file on the
server when it enters init state 3. To clear the problem, restart the
nfsd daemon by executing the following command:
/usr/lib/nfs/nfsd
If you are mounting resources from a fast server, it is advised that you use the NFS-specific mount options rsize and wsize. These options should be set to rsize=1024 and wsize=1024 because fast servers cause data overruns on the ethernet driver on slow client machines. One symptom of this problem is the following message on the client machine's console:
RPC: Timed out.Another symptom may be that the client machine appears to be hung, with the following message on the client machine console:
NFS server hostname not responding, still trying