Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1999-22,: Re: smbfs broken in 2.2.9

# Re: smbfs broken in 2.2.9

Urban Widmark (urban@svenskatest.se)
Sat, 5 Jun 1999 17:57:16 +0200 (CEST)

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(ctrl-x and ctrl-c are too close ... that last mail was incomplete. Now
where are those pine sources ... or do I just need to spend some more
time configuring)

On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, Steven N. Hirsch wrote:

> Under 2.2.9 + hjl/gam knfsd patches + tronds v3 patches, smbfs is
> completely hosed. All I have to do is mount a share from NT4/SP4 and
> attempt to write data to a file (or delete a file). The Linux process
> will hang irrevocably in 'D' state and cannot be killed. The mount point
> remains busy, and cannot be umounted by any means. The only recovery is a
> reboot. The file does get created at zero-length (or deleted) on the NT
> box, FWIW.
>
> I reverted back to 2.2.7-ac2, and all's fine.

Works fine for me in 2.2.9, but then I'm not using knfsd or those patches.

Is it hosed without the special patches? Is it hosed for you in plain
2.2.9? Without knfsd?

Since there is no active maintainer I guess you are the lucky person who
get to fix this problem ... :)

/Urban

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