smart way to mount NFS file system

sometimes NFS mount point can hang when you do a listing (ls -al) due to certain reasons such as server down, network problems etcetera.

to avoid this is it advisable to make the mount point down one level of root.

instead of:

# mount NFS_server:/data /data

in this case, if the mount point hang,

# ls -al /

would take a long time until the NFS mount timed out.

you should do:

# mount NFS_server:/data /new_directory/data

so if the mount point hang, you can still do listing of root.

# ls -al /

would work fine just that

# ls -al /new_directory

would fail.