[linux-cifs-client] Possible problems with lots of cifs mount

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Mon Sep 4 17:43:47 GMT 2006


On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 10:23:42AM +0100, Hari Sekhon wrote:
> 
> I have been finding cifs to be extremely buggy, but reverting back to 
> smbfs usually works fine, have you tried using smbfs instead of cifs and 
> seeing if the problem persists? In fact for a network backup script 
> using cifs, I had to write error catching for quite a lot of different 
> errors that occurred and falling back to smbfs worked every time by 
> using replacing "mount -t cifs" with"mount -t smbfs".

Have you logged bugs at bugzilla.samba.org ? If you don't
report the bugs we can't fix them.

Jeremy.


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