On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 16:02 +0200, Ziga Mahkovec wrote: > > 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. I seemed to have forgotten to use this option ;-) I'll give it a try next time when I have to do a remount (server is running a possibly root-able RH8 (with custom kernel), so I'll have to just pat my firewall :) > > 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). That's what I've been doing (I really just want to reuse /mnt :P). I just wanted to know if there were other options and if something like NetworkManager should be handling this <dreams> A cool feature to have is if I shift networks (like move from home to my hypothetical office), what I normally have mounted in my home profile gets mounted (say my shares for music, movies, etc...) and what I normally have mounted in my office profile gets mounted (like the accounts, finances, etc...) at appropriate locations based on _which_ Wifi network I got on. Works via wired too, provided you know the mac address of the dhcp server </dreams> -- Colin Charles, byte@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.bytebot.net/ "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mohandas Gandhi