am-utils/NFS mount lockups in 8.0

[Rick Macklem]

On Sun, 20 Dec 2009, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:

>> You could try the patch at:
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~rmacklem/patches/freebsd8-clntvc.patch
>> (Fixes an issue w.r.t. client side TCP reconnects and didn't quite make
>> it into 8.0.)
>> 
>> I am trying to keep a list of FreeBSD8.0 NFS fixes at:
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~rmacklem
>
> Ok, thanks.  TCP reconnect does seem like where the failure occurs.
>
> Do you know if these fixes will make it into a kernel updated via 
> 'freebsd-update' or will it be necessary to patch and build a custom kernel?
>
The ones currently listed are in stable/8. Being new to FreeBSD, I'm
not sure what "freebsd-update" does. I had assumed that they'll be in
8.1, but I'm not sure, rick