Hi Max,
I am testing an opaque VFS module with the mount.cifs and I have run
into a similar problem. Everything seems to work, but when I run into
an issue, the kernel freezes the process and sometimes I can recover
by killing the background process (that the VFS is connecting to) but
often I
I setup the mounts from the command line.
I've done this for years with smbfs, and although there is always an issue
when you try to access a mount to a windows machine that has gone stale,
doesn't exist, etc, I've never had sessions lock up so severely that I had
to physically power down the
I setup the mounts from the command line.
I've done this for years with smbfs, and although there is always an issue
when you try to access a mount to a windows machine that has gone stale,
doesn't exist, etc, I've never had sessions lock up so severely that I had
to physically power down the
How do you have the share setup on the Linux side? I had a problem when I
did the mount via SMBFS in my /etc/fstab. When I switched to CIFS instead it
seemed to fix it. I don't have samba running on the server, the two are not
maintained in parallel. I think the samba team has just been gracious
