Library stored on NFS share?

All,
Thinking about a new MB Air, but I've got a 65GB iTunes Library.  When I'm not at home, I have my iPhone with me, so I listen to music there. When I'm at home, my WLAN is 802.11n, and my NAS has a 2x1G LAG connecting it to the network. I'm thinking of putting the library on an auto mounted NFS share.
NFS is a pretty resilient protocol, not at all unstable like SMB and AFP an be..
Anyone done something like this before?  Success? Failure? Dragons?

i have my iTunes library (in fact, the entire iTunes folder including the library files) on a NAS and don't see these problems. however, i'm making sure that the share is mounted on my desktop before i launch iTunes.
you can have the NAS mount automatically at startup by adding the share(s) to your login items via system preferences > accounts > login item.
or, if you are comfortable with AppleScript, you could edit this script to suit your situation:
try
mount volume "afp://<AirPort Extreme Name>.local/<Share Volume Name>"as user name "<Share Username>" with password "<Share password>"
end try
this script just places the drive's icon on the desktop.
save it as an application and add that to your login items.
credit for the script goes to Tesserax.

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