[Unionfs] unionfs - samba mount

[Josef Sipek]

On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 08:04:05AM -0800, Harihara, Rama S wrote:
> Hi Jeff and Jan,
>    Thanks for the responses.  
>    As Jeff said, I can unmount the smb share, but unionfs still
> remembers that and holds a reference to the branch. So we still get a
> realpath() host is down. 
> 
> I looked at the code in unionfs that takes care of the "Remove" part of
> unionctl, it tries to get a realpath and if that fails ( which will fail
> since there is no host - no path resolved ), it throws up an error and
> exits. 

I created a bugzilla entry for this...

https://bugzilla.filesystems.org/show_bug.cgi?id=530

Jeff.

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