yes - it still happens (happened) with trusty.  I use a backup program
called backintime which uses rsync, and I backup the laptop to an nfs4
mount.  During the backup, the nfs4 server crashes just as specified
above in trusty (kernel 3.13.0-32-generic).  The backup program then
stops, leaving the rsync running.

If I restart the server, without restarting the client, the backup
program continues and corrupts the disk that is being backed up to,
requiring an fsck.

>From the logs of backintime, the command is:- (where pio is the laptop
being backed up, mike is the nfs4 server, and the disk /media/seagate on
mike is mounted nfs4 at pio as /media/mike/seagate

rsync -rtDH --links --no-p --no-g --no-o  --delete --delete-excluded  -v
--chmod=Du+wx  --exclude="/media/mike/seagate/backintime"
--exclude="/home/kit284/.local/share/backintime"
--include="/home/kit284/" --include="/home/" --include="/home/mythtv/"
--exclude="*.backup*" --exclude="*~" --exclude="/home/kit284/root"
--exclude="/home/kit284/tmp" --exclude="/home/kit284/Ubuntu One"
--exclude="*.thumbnails" --exclude="*.iso"
--exclude="/home/kit284/.gvfs" --exclude="[Cc]ache*"
--include="/home/kit284/**" --include="/home/mythtv/**" --exclude="*" /
"/media/mike/seagate/backintime/backintime/pio/kit284/1/new_snapshot/backup/"


I am currently running backintime via a FUSE mounted ssh connection built in to 
backintime, and this is working OK.  However, is is very disquieting to know 
that NFS4 can crash, and take out the disk, requiring a reboot and fsck.

I note that some research on the internet show that rsync can have
problems with change attributes on nfs4 mounts, and the suggestion is
that this is a bug with nfs4.

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