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From: Phil Pishioneri <pgp@psu.edu>
To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
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  On 7/30/10 2:11 PM, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> Your Mac has a perfectly functional CIFS client,

It didn't, at one point. Some version of Mac OS X would cause a client 
kernel crash when unmounting the CIFS share. I think it's been fixed, 
but we had to have some OS X clients switch to NFS because of it.

-Phil