In article <20050104192819.M8836@welmers.net>,
Bastiaan Welmers <haasje@welmers.net> wrote:
>Hi,  
>  
>I'm experiencing very annoying NFS problems with NetBSD.  
>  
>It happens often that a mounted NFS share just breaks down, for a reason  
>that I cannot understand, because the connection is still up, I can ping,  
>ftp, telnet whatever between the two computers, but the NFS connection went  
>completely dead. Every process using the share turns into a zombie and can't  
>even be killed. umount -f does not work (and turns into a non-killable  
>zombie). Only solution is to hard-reboot the computer (can't even be  
>rebooted by the "reboot" commando, just hangs at the shutdown scripts).  
>  
>Another day the nfs share works without problems.  
>  
>Is there something that can be done to avoid this (in particular the 
>aggravating zombie behavior) ? I tried  
>something with time-out values but the error still returns.  
>  
>This happens between two netbsd boxes, versions 1.6, 2.0 every combination.  
>  

Is that NFS over tcp or udp?

christos