[gentoo-user] Re: CIFS mounts started misbehaving

[Grant Edwards]

On 2017-03-06, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote:
> On 2017-03-03, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote:
>
>> For the past 10-15 [years], I've been mounting a handfull of
>> directories that reside on a Windows server, and it's always worked
>> fine.
>>
>> About a week ago, they started acting oddly.  They all mount fine,
>> and work as usual as long as you keep using them.  AFAICT, if they
>> sit idle for "a while" (tens of minutes, maybe an hour), they
>> freeze up.
[...]
> It's a kernel 4.9 problem.
[...]
> Rebooting with the 4.4.39 kernel fixes the problem.

FWIW, I've been running 4.9.34 since yesterday, and all my CIFS mounts
seem stable.

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