Re: system hangs during shutdown...

[Geert Stappers <stappers@stappers.nl>]

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 04:20:34PM -0600, Bruce Sass wrote:
> On July 21, 2011 05:02:38 AM Ben Hutchings 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.
> > 
> 
> 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.

The client is still the client with the expected behaviour when it is going down.

You should have unmounted the directory from the NFS client(s)
before shutting down the server.


Groeten
Geert Stappers
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