diff -uNr a/heartbeat/nfsserver b/heartbeat/nfsserver
--- a/heartbeat/nfsserver	2017-11-02 12:42:24.260248092 +0100
+++ b/heartbeat/nfsserver	2017-11-02 12:43:12.494802422 +0100
@@ -874,10 +874,10 @@
 	if [ "$EXEC_MODE" -eq "2" ]; then
 		ocf_log info "Stop: threads"
 		tfn="/proc/fs/nfsd/threads"
-		if [ -f "$tfn" ] && [ "$(cat $tfn)" -gt "0" ]; then
-			ocf_exit_reason "NFS server failed to stop: /proc/fs/nfsd/threads"
-			return $OCF_ERR_GENERIC
-		fi
+		while [ -f "$tfn" ] && [ "$(cat $tfn)" -gt "0" ]; do
+			ocf_log err "NFS server failed to stop: /proc/fs/nfsd/threads"
+			sleep 1
+		done
 
 		nfs_exec stop rpc-statd > /dev/null 2>&1
 		ocf_log info "Stop: rpc-statd"