[Unionfs] unionfs - samba mount

Josef Sipek jsipek at fsl.cs.sunysb.edu
Tue Nov 7 08:56:09 EST 2006


On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 10:26:03AM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >> 
> >> I get a "realpath() host is down".
> >> 
> >Hrm. I'm not sure where the problem is stemming from. I am somewhat tempted
> >to say that it's due to the fact that during branch removal, we release some
> >resources and the CIFS/SMBFS code gives up with the above message.
> 
> But umount /smb and umount /nfs usually work when an NFS server is down 
> (and no files happen to be open). And if not that, umount -l may do it.

We always hold a reference to the branch directory.

Josef "Jeff" Sipek.

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