This is not the fault of NFS. The same thing would happen if a local filesystem suddenly went missing. The kernel treats NFS mounts as just another filesystem.

This is not the fault of NFS. The same thing would happen if a local filesystem suddenly went missing. The kernel treats NFS mounts as just another filesystem. You can in fact mount shares as soft or interruptible if you want. https://kb.netapp.com/Advice_and_Troubleshooting/Data_Storage_Software/ONTAP_OS/What_are_the_differences_between_hard_mount_and_soft_mount https://kb.netapp.com/Advice_and_Troubleshooting/Data_Storag...