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Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 14:15:25 +0200
From: Niek Bergboer <niek@bergboer.net>
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Subject: Re: smbfs: disconnected servers
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When exactly has this funcionality (both 1 and 2) been implemented?
Since the latest MFC (the one that required LIBICONV and MCHAINS in
the kernel config)? Or has it been around longer?

Niek

On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 12:17:03PM +0700, Boris Popov wrote:
> On Wed, 30 May 2001, Niek Bergboer wrote:
> 	Hmm, strange. unmount command should work on the dead share. It
> might take a while because some timeouts have to occur.
> 
> > How difficult (and desirable) would it be to implement either one of
> > the following two options in smbfs:
> > 
> > 1. The ability to reconnect to a server: suppose a server switches
> > off, and switches on again the following day.
> 
> 	This is already done - a reconnect procedure happens after share
> detected as dead.
> 
> > 2. The ability to forcefully unmount the share on my local machine, to
> > such an extent that if the server cannot be contacten within a
> > specified amount of time, that the entry is bluntly deleted from the
> > kernel's internal list of mounted filesystems (or something along
> > those lines).
> 
> 	As I said it should work, but there is always room for bugs :)
> --
> Boris Popov

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