[linux-cifs-client] Re: CIFS

[Steven French]

> I get a multitude of errors like these:
> 
>  > tail /var/log/messages
> 
> Jun  3 12:26:17 testmation kernel:  CIFS VFS: Error 0xffffff90 on 
> cifs_get_inode_info in lookup of \logmaster
This is "EHOSTDOWN" (the network connection or the server went down or is 
not available).
 
 Is is this a CIFS 1.10 issue? Would it be resolved if I installed a 
> later version of CIFS?
The more important version number is the version of the kernel module for 
cifs (you can run modinfo on cifs.ko or "cat /proc/fs/cifs/DebugData" to 
display the version of the cifs module).   Version 1.10 is the version of 
the small mount helper utility.  It is possible that this is a client bug 
which has been fixed, but there are many possible causes which are more 
likely (server or network failure included).



Steve French
Senior Software Engineer
Linux Technology Center - IBM Austin
phone: 512-838-2294
email: sfrench at-sign us dot ibm dot com