What are the appropriate mount options for an NFS share?

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The best mount options for NFS shares from your system are really environmentally specific. Depending on your needs for performance vs. stability, there are a variety settings to choose from. A good place for an overview of the mount options is the mount man page. However, generically speaking, the default options work fairly well; here are the defaults:

rw, suid, dev, exec, aut...

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