I have an NFS server that several clients mount. I am using the following in my /etc/exports on the server:

/content                *(rw,no_root_squash)

and on the clients in my /etc/fstab I have:

content.prd.domain.tld:/content /content         nfs     rw,hard,intr    0 0

If the clients boot while the NFS server is down, the share does not get mounted. I read in the NFS man page that the retry defaults should handle this:

retry=n The number of minutes to retry an NFS mount operation in the foreground or background before giving up. The default value for forground mounts is 2 minutes. The default value for background mounts is 10000 minutes, which is roughly one week.

I have tested this, but it doesn't appear to work. Am I missing something?

All servers are RHEL 5.4.

Cheers z0mbix