Re: Freeing Resources of Processes in D State

From: Dances With Crows (danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows_at_gmail.com)
Date: 11/14/05 

Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 11:04:53 -0600

On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 11:17:19 -0500, John-Paul Stewart staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
> ralfthewise@gmail.com wrote:
>> hmm... I'm not familiar with the let-accesses-fail option and doing a
>> google search for "let-accesses-fail" returns zero results. If there
>> is some option like that, that sounds exactly like what I need.
> I don't think Peter was being literal when he said that. There should
> be a "let-accesses-fail" option, but not necessarily by that name.
> Read up on smbmount to see if there is one and if so,

There isn't one in smbmount 3.0.14a . However, if you go find the
broken SMB machine and restart smbd on it, or reboot it, or whatever,
the failed mount *may* start working properly again. Or not. Hard to
tell. 

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