[PATCH 0/3] NFS: Eliminating the Annoying 15sec Delay with NFS mounts.

[Steve Dickson]

As I'm sure you've notice the 15sec delay on all NFS mounts.
This is because the kernel now tries to see if it should
use Kerberos in the mount setup. If Kerberos is not set up
(aka rpc.gssd is not running) it takes the kernel 15sec
to figure that out (aka the upcall times out).

The current workaround is to start rpc.gssd, but again, 
if Kerberos is not set up, rpc.gssd spews tons of message
in /var/log/messages for every mount. Plus putting
a user level daemon in the mount path is and never
was a good idea... IMHO...

Jeff Layton (jlayton at redhat.com) has come up with
some kernel patches what will detect whether the rpc.gssd
daemon is or is not running. When rpc.gssd is not
running the mount continues with no delay. I've
ported them to both F19 and F20.

Now, These patches are working their way upstream atm and 
the final version could be slightly different than
these... I doubt it... But until then... The 15 sec 
delay will be dead! Thank very much Jeff Layton!!!

steved.