NFS makes OSX hang

Normally if you are connected to an NFS server and the connection goes down, the Finder tries to reconnect and if it can't, it unmount the partition.
But if a partition is not connected but it still mounted while Mac OS X is shutting down, this is not done properly, actually OS X hangs.
Is this happening to me only?
iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

You're right, this is a major bug. Finder takes a lot of time to unmount disconnected shares (please consider that this could happen accidentally with low WiFi signal, for instance) and the kernel stop responding if this is happening during the shutdown process. This should be fixed soon.
Maybe nobody answered because NFS is used in advanced UNIX - Mac (Linux in my case) networks, and this is not exactly a standard home configuration.
I don't know if this happens with SMB or ftp, anyway Mac OS X shows an overall weakness with networks mounts of any kind, if connection suddenly goes down.

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> Hi,
>
> I just installed the version of NMAS included in iChain 2.3.
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>
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>
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> Anyone ever had the same issue?
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>
> Bart
>
>
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