From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755307AbXGGBp6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jul 2007 21:45:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753109AbXGGBpt (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jul 2007 21:45:49 -0400 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.176]:9852 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752772AbXGGBps (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jul 2007 21:45:48 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=Do8fwxSCIeTr/A0CSP1A68ACMaSfF4EaS8upBsqwIW+1f3G6I0dCP87kfaF0jeL1S5o7Bnr4uHcXpCl3WWbvMs/Ace2MkfXrBxttYygrGwps6ulXesQeVa15s8r2uT3GnMF8VX0MgXnE4vfH0Zv15GGd3SaakkUXz1E/UauJLp8= Message-ID: <787b0d920707061845o6cf314dakf45c839c4fc0e600@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 21:45:47 -0400 From: "Albert Cahalan" To: linux-kernel Subject: partially mounted cifs filesystem MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I had one share mounted, from XP to Linux, and wanted another. At first I had an incorrect setting on the XP box, almost certainly related to permissions. The mount failed of course. Running "mount" showed that the filesystem was not mounted, but apparently it didn't remain fully unmounted either. There was also nothing under the mount point, and the "ls -l" data (directory size and link count) looked like ext3. I changed settings on the XP box numerous times. After many frustrating attempts, I ran "umount" on the mount point and then successfully mounted the filesystem. I'll guess that the kernel returned an error for my early attempts at mounting, but left open a CIFS connection. I suppose the cifs error handling is buggy.