I recently rebuilt nfs-utils with some changes to its units to fix some failures when mounting NFS shares on boot. In particular, I added 'Before=remote-fs-pre.target' to rpc-statd.service, rpc-idmapd.service and rpc-gssd.service. However, you can use nfs4 without running rpc-idmapd (if you don't need ID mapping). This means rpcbind is not ordered on the nfs mounts and may be started too late. I have the following questions: 1) Is using nfs4 without idmapd even a viable scenario? 1a) Should we add Before=remote-fs-pre.target to rpcbind? 2) What's the status of socket activated rpcbind? (Tom?)