rpc.mountd, when called by a remote system, tries to open raw partitions (!!!) and so hangs if one of the disks doesnt respond. after several seconds i get a timeout on remote side. Actually, I really wonder which business rpc.mountd has with RAW partitions at all. So the NFS server is completely unusable. I've had a quick look through the sources, but couldnt find the cause of the problem yet, will have to investigate further. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. plug in some broken disk, which takes really long to respond (w/o mounting !) 2. mount a properly exported filesystem (on a good disk ;-p) from remote side 3. wait several secs and enjoy the RPC timeout ;-o Expected Results: rpc.mountd should have absolutely now business with raw partions.
