intr
and soft
mount options, but these have negative impact on file system integrity. Do not use them.soft
mount option can be dangerous. I would advise against it.soft
option only works if you also set a non-zero retrycnt
(the default is zero). See the mount_nfs(8) manual page.intr
option (instead of soft
– do not use both), which is a little less dangerous and might solve the issue that you're seeing (e.g. interrupting hanging commands like df
).