So, at work I just installed a new spiffy NAS from Infrant Technologies called ReadyNAS. I've been impressed with the box so far, and it is pretty neat to have 1.4 TB of storage space at my disposal. One problem I ran into was that mounting the nfs share from the ReadyNAS by an Ubuntu Dapper box was taking a _LONG_ time:
time mount nfs
real 1m45.030s
user 0m0.004s
sys 0m0.000s
After doing some research, I found an article here that indicated I needed to have portmap running for this to run quickly. So, after a quick apt-get install portmap, I now get the following:
time mount nfs
real 0m0.025s
user 0m0.004s
sys 0m0.008s