The following reply was made to PR kern/29881; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: kern-bug-people@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@NetBSD.org,
	netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/29881: umount stale NFS volume blocks deadly
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 21:11:01 +0200

 On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 06:29:00PM +0000, Denis Lagno wrote:
 > Machine: i386
 > >Description:
 > I mount NFS volume, then for some reason I lose the network.  Then umount this volume just blocks.
 > So if I reboot, it stops in "Unmounting file systems" and no progress ever seen.
 
 This is the proper behavior. Unless mounted -o soft, the client has to wait for
 the server to come back.
 
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 Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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