Bug#317798: kernel-image-2.6.11-1-686-smp: nfs locking can cause a process to hang forever

[Marc Horowitz <marc@mit.edu>]

Jurij Smakov <jurij@wooyd.org> writes:

>> I think that nfs strategy to retry forever is a documented feature, not a 
>> bug. You can override the behaviour by doing a 'soft' mount. If you believe
>> that this bug should remain open, please provide additional information, 
>> otherwise I'll close this bug one week from now (Sunday, April 2nd 2006).

Do you have a reference to this document?  Retrying forever doesn't
seem awful (it wouldn't be my preference, but that's ok), but retrying
*uninterruptably* seems like it would never be desirable behavior.

                Marc