> after a while 'After a while' usually requiring the users to wait with an unresponsive desktop environment, because they opened a file manager whilst NFS was

> after a while 'After a while' usually requiring the users to wait with an unresponsive desktop environment, because they opened a file manager whilst NFS was huffing. So they'd manage to switch to a virtual terminal and then out of habit type 'ls', locking that up too. After a few years of messing around with soft mounts and block sizes and all sorts of NFS config nonsense, I switched to SMB and never looked back