>>mangix+5h
It at least doesn't lock anything up that has a file open when the network goes down. NFS is a nightmare with that. NFS is more idiomatic on *nix but still a huge pain when dealing with matching file perms across systems.
>>colord+Vs
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.