Re: getting disconnected from a mounted smbfs

[Pietro Cagnoni <pcagnoni@mclink.net>]

Dayalan Manohar wrote:
> After getting disconnected from a mounted smbfs I find that I am
> not able to unmount it and df hangs when I try to check if it's
> still mounted.How to gracefully handle getting disconnected from a
> mounted smbfs?Is there any special mount option for this?IIRC nfs
> has one.
>
> dayalan

i had the same problem: it disappeared when i installed adrian bunk's
"kernel 2.4 on potato" kit from http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/, even if
the kernel was still 2.2;

it looks like a umount bug that got fixed.

hope it helps.

pietro



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