smbfs mounts, and disconnected (then reconnected) networks
Ziga Mahkovec
ziga.mahkovec at klika.si
Mon Apr 11 14:02:20 UTC 2005
On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 01:53 +1000, Colin Charles wrote:
> So, I tend to do:
>
> mount -t smbfs //myserver/share /mnt
>
> a lot. Problem is, I do this on my laptop, and I do tend to move it
> around sometimes, to places that don't involve my network. Because ACPI
> sleep doesn't work on my beautiful x86 laptop, I resort to just closing
> the lid, putting it in my backpack, and moving it usually, a 5-minute
> drive away from my home to where I usually spend the rest of my day
>
> Now, if I try to stat /mnt, I can an I/O error. This is mighty annoying,
> so is there a timeout for "lost mounts"?
> [...]
If that's not an NT4 server you're accessing, you could try the newer
CIFS filesystem (mount.cifs) and see if it behaves any better.
> Note that in all these scenarious, unmounting /mnt _does not work_
When I have these problems with stale NFS mounts, I usually resort to
lazy unmounting (umount -l).
Hope that helps,
--
Ziga
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