Hi. I've been using samba/cifs for years and now noticed various hangs occuring on reconnection. Here is an example of situation when it occurs: 1. host A have shared directory "share", host A is running MS Windows. (for example - a laptop) 2. host B got directory "share" mounted under /mnt/share, host B is running Debian Linux Squeeze with 3.2 backported kernel with latest updates installed. If host A reboots and after successful reboot you'd try to access /mnt/share on host B - host B hangs on that dir for 60-300seconds (sometimes even longer). I understand the hang if it could happen in situation where "share" on host A is no longer available, but it's available (the only thing - host was rebooted!). What I've tried so far: 1) I've tried using "soft" option on mount - didnt help at all (I believe its set by default, but added anyways to the fstab mounting options) 2) tried inserting cifs module with echo_retries=1 - didnt help still the same thing 3) tried on 2.6.32 kernel as well (debian's default kernel) - absolutely same behaviour, thought it's fixed in 3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64 backported kernel. It's very annoying and inconvinient to have this behavior every time host reboots. Please suggest if it's distro specific bug or samba's "by design bug"? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
