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Date:      Wed, 30 May 2001 14:05:34 +0200
From:      Volker Stolz <stolz@I2.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
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>
In-Reply-To: <20010530103558.A31220@wit379119.student.utwente.nl>
References:  <20010528142059.A703@kirk.sector14.net> <20010530103558.A31220@wit379119.student.utwente.nl>

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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

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