On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 20:02 +0300, Erez D wrote:
> in the end i had no choise but to reboot the server.
> btw, i tried once to mount -t cifs, and it took 5 minutes to hang the
> server so i was back to smb

> On 10/26/06, Noam Meltzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > anyhow, i believe that it is a new feature in 2.6, you can mount smb shares
> > using '-t cifs' (instead of '-t smbfs') and that is considered a bit more
> > stable.

smbfs is deprecated in favor of cifs. If you have a new kernel, it is
recommended that you use cifs and report bugs if you see degradation in
respect to smbfs, which will be taken care of - unlike smbfs which isn't
maintained.

http://lwn.net/Articles/183693/

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Oded
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Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be
your undoing.
    -- Holbrook Jackson



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