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Date:      Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:45:38 -0500 (EST)
From:      Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca>
To:        Olaf Seibert <O.Seibert@cs.ru.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 8.0-RC1 NFS client timeout issue
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.63.0911231641530.5203@muncher.cs.uoguelph.ca>
In-Reply-To: <20091027164159.GU841@twoquid.cs.ru.nl>
References:  <20091027164159.GU841@twoquid.cs.ru.nl>

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On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, Olaf Seibert wrote:

> I see an annoying behaviour with NFS over TCP. It happens both with nfs
> and newnfs. This is with FreeBSD/amd64 8.0-RC1 as client. The server is
> some Linux or perhaps Solaris, I'm not entirely sure.
>
[good stuff snipped...]
>
> Though technically the connection is closed in one direction
> only, the intention of the server seems clear, and it would be better to
> be careful and make a new connection right away.
>
I believe that r199293 committed to stable/8 should fix this. It did not
make it into FreeBSD8.0, so users of FreeBSD8.0 will need to switch to
using "udp" or apply the patch themselves, if slow reconnects after a
non-FreeBSD NFS server are causing them grief.

rick




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