On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 12:17, Kevin Brown wrote:
> This was my experience with samba at my last job.  A shell script was setup to
> automount a remote smbfs to the linux box (RH 6.x/7.x).  Another script was
> written to unmount that filesystem during shutdown.  Instead the system hung
> trying to shutdown and would have to be improperly turned off (push the power
> button) and then have the joy of waiting for it to fsck 60GB of space.  The only
> solution found from searching the web came from the samba mailing list which
> stated that it was an issue with samba and that it was best to just manually
> unmount those shares before shutting down.  This issue showed up with the
> version coming with RH6.1 IIRC and was still there in RH7.2.
> 
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RH 7.2 uses journalled file system ext3 - thus, no need for fsck at
startup anyway.

I never had this problem - any redhat version / any samba version - NFS
mounts can be a problem...smbfs have never been a problem.

Craig