On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, Bruce Sass wrote: > > This is not a bug. NFS clients are supposed to keep on trying to reach > > the server, by default. You should have unmounted the directory from > > the NFS client(s) before shutting down the server. > > > > Ben. > > Sounds like a desirable behaviour when the system is coming up, but having > the > client hang when *going down* because a server disappeared doesn't seem right.
Don't use NFS, then. It does NOT tolerate servers going away. Maybe NFSv4 is a bit better, but v3 does not let you get away with it (maybe it should for read-only mounts). -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh _______________________________________________ Pkg-sysvinit-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-sysvinit-devel
