On Tue, May 30 2017, NeilBrown wrote:

> Systemd does not, and will not, support "bg" correctly.
> It has other, better, ways to handle "background" mounting.

For those who aren't closely watching systemd development, a
patch was recently accepted which causes systemd to work correctly with
NFS bg mounts.  So the above "and will not" was, happily, not correct.

So this patch to the nfs documentation is no longer relevant.

Thanks everyone,

NeilBrown