[ale] samba mounts just won't die....

[Dow Hurst]

Three different methods might help you out.

1) Use rsync instead of samba mounts and eliminate your problem.

2) Find out if a userland Samba is possible, I don't know.  Or, somehow 
make the mount at a userlevel, not a kernel level.

3) Would a pre-emptive kernel give John the possibility of interrupting 
the kernel level request?



John Wells wrote:

>Guys,
>
>Connecting to my company's vpn and using a few mounted samba dirs. 
>Problem is, BS DSL will drop about half hour or so (forcing a reconnect,
>which my firewall/router handles), and when it does, I have no way to
>umount or kill any processes using those mounts short of rebooting.  If I
>try to umount it, I get a busy message.  If I do an fuser -m /mysmbmnt,
>the process hangs.  Any attempt to kill it fails.  If I do an ls
>/mysmbmnt, same thing....process hangs, no way to kill it.
>
>I assume the processes are hanging while doing some sort of read on the
>dir, which effectively doesn't exist anymore.  Anyone know what I can do
>to rid myself of the mounts (so I can mount again) when the DSL/vpn dies?
>
>Thanks,
>John
>
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