Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759667AbZIPQ2l (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:28:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759594AbZIPQ2e (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:28:34 -0400 Received: from smtp2.ultrahosting.com ([74.213.174.253]:56487 "EHLO smtp.ultrahosting.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752473AbZIPQ2d (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:28:33 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:26:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: cl@V090114053VZO-1 To: Jeff Layton cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, samba@lists.samba.org, linux-cifs-client@lists.samba.org Subject: Re: 2.6.31-rc8: CIFS with 5 seconds hiccups In-Reply-To: <20090915183405.2797b05e@tlielax.poochiereds.net> Message-ID: References: <20090905071052.50501826@tlielax.poochiereds.net> <20090909125352.1c7b57d2@tlielax.poochiereds.net> <20090909132039.1ca47cd4@tlielax.poochiereds.net> <20090909140257.35ede0cc@tlielax.poochiereds.net> <20090909205548.4858b524@zanovar.poochiereds.net> <20090910153347.2f2616e8@barsoom.rdu.redhat.com> <20090910165757.43b77874@tlielax.poochiereds.net> <20090910201932.5b8356e2@tlielax.poochiereds.net> <20090915183405.2797b05e@tlielax.poochiereds.net> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (DEB 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1470 Lines: 41 On Tue, 15 Sep 2009, Jeff Layton wrote: > Yow, that version of mount.cifs is really old. I wonder if it may be > passing bad mount options to the kernel? Might be interesting to strace > that. Something like: > > # strace -f -s 256 -e mount mount -t cifs //chiprodfs2/company /mnt -ouser=clameter,domain=xxx > > ...it'll probably have a cleartext password in it so you might want to > doctor the options a bit before sending along if you do. > > Alternately, you might just want to try a newer version of mount.cifs > and see whether that fixes this. Tried a newer version of mount.cifs without any change. > > I cannot mount the clameter dir on the 32 bit box. Hangs. So I will mount > > /company. > > > > Actually, the trace of a hanging mount would probably be interesting. > > Does the 32-bit capture that you sent represent a mount attempt that > hung? Or was it successful? No it was successful. > What's the "devname" that you're giving to the mount command for the > "clameter" dir? If there's more than 1 path component after the > hostname, then the problem may be in the old version of mount.cifs. > Some of them had broken handling for path prefixes. its //machinename/company/clameter So two components. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/