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#1 2012-06-08 15:52:43
- olive
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Shutdown hang if a mounted cifs filesystem is not responding
I sometimes mount a filesystem over CIFS (quite often a virtual machine). Sometimes I shutdown the virtual (or physical) machine forgetting to unmount the cifs folder. In this situation if I try to shutdown the linux machine, it hangs trying to unmount filesystem, forcing me to do an unclean shutdown (via hardware of the Ctr-Alt-Syst-O key). I suppose the same behaviour will happen if for whatever reason the CIFS server is not responding, so the ability to cleanly shutdfown the machine depends on the fact of having a reliable internet connection and the remote server responding properly. Is there not a possibility to force unmounting an unresponding cifs server? If yes, should it not be a good idea to include it in the archlinux shutdown script.
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