I'm sorry if this is a vague question, but I hope someone can correct or affirm my understanding of smbfs socket behavior. I read in the mount.cifs manpage for the "port=" option that it will use an existing connection to that port. So does this mean that regardless of how many files might be concurrently open on a single share, regardless how many processes are executing I/O requests, smbfs multiplexes all associated I/O blocks through the same single TCP connection? Is it a persistent connection for as long as the mount exists? (i.e. I'm using an fstab entry) Granted I know how to use netstat, but hoping someone might note something authoritative. Can I infer that if I have 5 fstab entries to unique hosts, and mount -a, I'll have 5 outbound TCP connections? Thanks! - Matthew -- 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
