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 > > anyway, i rebooted the windows machine without umounting the smb > share many times , and it was no problem, the mount continued to work > after the windows was up again. > > > i am using linux since about 1994, and the umount problem was always relevant. > then it was nfs, now it is smb (and probably nfs too) > > just can't figure out how a stable and mature system like linux, still > have problems like > a process that can't be killed even with -9, and that the only > solution is to reboot > > we used to make fun of windows that had to be rebooted for anything, > and that linux could do anything without a reboot. > > erez.
Windows, like any other OS suffers from the same problem. No existing OS can kill a process once it's sleeping inside the kernel or if a kernel device/driver has hanged/crashed/died a horrible death. In this respect Task manager -> Debug progress -> Kill (Windows) is not better then kill -9. At least Linux won't crash with a horrible blue screen if a kernel module dies in most contexts. - Gilboa ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
