I have an NFS server at home and at work we have Windows (not Samba) servers. When I first switched to systemd I noticed that boot and shutdown were seriously delayed while NFS and CIFS were mounted/unmounted. systemd was designed to eliminate those kinds of delays, so I did some research to find out how to correctly mount NFS and CIFS using systemd. systemd friendly fstab Below are some example /etc/fstab entries for NFS and CIFS mounts that are systemd friendly, the pertinent mount options ...