The upstream bug (https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16494) has been fixed in Linux kernel 2.6.36 by this ChangeSet:
commit 669502ff31d7dba1849aec7ee2450a3c61f57d39 Author: Andy Chittenden <[email protected]> Date: Tue Aug 10 10:19:53 2010 -0400 SUNRPC: fix NFS client over TCP hangs due to packet loss (Bug 16494) When reusing a TCP connection, ensure that it's aborted if a previous shutdown attempt has been made on that connection so that the RPC over TCP recovery mechanism succeeds. Signed-off-by: Andy Chittenden <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <[email protected]> How do we get that change into the 2.6.32 debian packages for squeeze and sid? -- Andy, BlueArc Engineering

