[lxgr]

> less likely to completely hang your Mac

I think what hangs the Mac isn't the remote file system as such, but rather some local app or (more likely) low-level OS service assuming that all mounted filesystems are local (or at least low-latency and highly available).

[tambourine_man]

That too, but I remember having straight kernel panics. Granted, that was more than a decade ago.