From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 30 5: 5:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from r220-1.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE (r220-1.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.3.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A72837B440; Wed, 30 May 2001 05:05:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stolz@I2.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE) Received: from r220-1.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE (relay2.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.3.1]) by r220-1.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE (8.10.1/8.11.3-2) with ESMTP id f4UC5bp18677; Wed, 30 May 2001 14:05:37 +0200 (MEST) Received: from hyperion.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (hyperion.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.112.212]) by r220-1.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE (8.10.1/8.11.3/3) with ESMTP id f4UC5aH18666; Wed, 30 May 2001 14:05:36 +0200 (MEST) Received: from agamemnon.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (agamemnon.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.194.74]) by hyperion.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1/2) with ESMTP id OAA05155; Wed, 30 May 2001 14:00:34 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from stolz@localhost) by agamemnon.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1-gb-2) id OAA04763; Wed, 30 May 2001 14:05:34 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 14:05:34 +0200 From: Volker Stolz To: niek@bergboer.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: smbfs: disconnected servers Message-ID: <20010530140534.A4752@i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010528142059.A703@kirk.sector14.net> <20010530103558.A31220@wit379119.student.utwente.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.17i In-Reply-To: <20010530103558.A31220@wit379119.student.utwente.nl> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In local.freebsd-stable, you wrote: >However, the problems begin when somebody whose share I mounted >decides to switch off his computer: I (obviously) cannot read from the >mountpoint anymore, but there also is _no way_ of forcefully >unmounting the share anymore. Maybe smbfs should be ported to userland (portal) somehow? I'm not saying im volunteering, though ;) But I'd like to know if there are any limitations which might prevent this from working... I think I ran into the same troubles with sharity-light, because of the usual lock-ups when NFS become unavailable. -- Abstrakte Syntaxträume. Volker Stolz * stolz@i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de * PGP + S/MIME To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message