I agree that it is not very likely that this problem lies in nfs, but I also don't think it lies in nautilus, thunar, dolphin etc. I am also experiencing hangs in vlc, totem, terminal even the login screen (after I locked the screen). Basically any application that requires (additional) disk access (which is just about every application) has issues when nfs server is disconnected. It could be that file managers are behaving especially bad as they read entire directories (or even directory structures), not just a single file.
I tend to think it has something to do with the mounting process itself or with vfs, but I have not been able to find concrete evidence.
I agree that it is not very likely that this problem lies in nfs, but I also don't think it lies in nautilus, thunar, dolphin etc. I am also experiencing hangs in vlc, totem, terminal even the login screen (after I locked the screen). Basically any application that requires (additional) disk access (which is just about every application) has issues when nfs server is disconnected. It could be that file managers are behaving especially bad as they read entire directories (or even directory structures), not just a single file.
I tend to think it has something to do with the mounting process itself or with vfs, but I have not been able to find concrete evidence.