Scott Gifford put forth on 2/16/2010 2:41 PM:
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> Is there a way to get similar behavior from a CIFS server, where a rebooted
> fileserver will automatically be remounted when it comes back?
reboots to fix, update the firmware. If that doesn't solve the problems,
replace it with a better NAS, or build your own Debian Samba server.
Fix the problem instead of trying to mask the symptoms. A good NAS should have
uptimes in months or years, not hours days or weeks.
Yes, that would be better of course, but the servers are located in a country where power can be a bit unreliable, and we are still working out kinks in our generator and UPS, which is mostly what causes the problem.
And even so, having multiple layers of reliability is a goal I like to try for. I'm surprised it's at all tricky, with NFS it just sort of happens automatically, at least in my experience.
----Scott.