NFS share can be mounted multiple times, and sometimes the mount attempt shows an error "mount.nfs: /nfs_share is busy or already mounted"

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Issue

df output shows multiple mounts of the same nfs share
Issuing 'mount /nfs_share' command sometimes returns "mount.nfs: /nfs_share is busy or already mounted"

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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