[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] system hangs during shutdown...

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

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).

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