I would argue that if you don't want your applications to stop working when your ticket expires, you shouldn't let the ticket expire. If you don't want to have to renew your ticket, you should use an infinite ticket lifetime. It sounds like you've made up your mind, but I would urge you to make this a mount option, analogous to the hard/soft mount option. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html