Re: mounting cifs filesystems not possible

[Gerhard Hintermayer <gerhard.hintermayer@gmail.com>]

Well this is indeed strange. First I thought the problem was solved
because I had an old version of mount installed, but the successful
mount with latest version of mount.cifs was only by chance. I get 1
successful mount out of ~ 30 tries (each time unloading the cifs
module). And looking at the source in export.c I discovered, that
reexporting cifs- mount points is still not supported :-( : This seems
to be very tricky. If you need more information to track the tainting
problem down, pls give me a note.


PS: please CC gerhard.hintermayer@gmail.com, I'm not on the list

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 1:13 AM, Andrew Morton<akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:22:42 +0200 (CEST)
> "Gerhard Hintermayer" <g.hintermayer@inode.at> wrote:
>
>> I discovered that this is a slow_path issue, which is tainting the kernel,
>> I already filed this as a gentoo bug, but since this is kernel related, I
>> think here's the right place.  The server I'm trying to mount is a Windows
>> 2003 Server, I  can inquire more if neccessary.
>> PS: please CC me, I not on the list anymore (too much traffic, just how I
>> was warned)
>>
>
> please do cc the CIFS maintainer and list on future issues:
>
> COMMON INTERNET FILE SYSTEM (CIFS)
> P:      Steve French
> M:      sfrench@samba.org
> L:      linux-cifs-client@lists.samba.org
> L:      samba-technical@lists.samba.org
> W:      http://linux-cifs.samba.org/
> T:      git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6.git
> S:      Supported
> F:      Documentation/filesystems/cifs.txt
> F:      fs/cifs/
>
> Thanks.
>