8.0-RC1 NFS client timeout issue

[Rick Macklem]

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.
>
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> 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