From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Description of problem: After I mount a cifs share that is on a windows 2000 machine, I begin to copy a large amount of files from the mount to the local drive for backup purposes. The cifs share begins to get "cannot stat <mount> Input/Output error". And then the file transfer dies. If I unmount then remount the share, I can then get a directory listing but the file transfer still does not work. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.3-2.1.240 samba-3.0.2a-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. mount a cifs share 2. begin to copy files 3. Actual Results: cannot stat <mount> Input/Output error Expected Results: be able to copy files from a cifs mount to local drive without errors, and without having to reboot to finish transfers. Additional info: This has been happening since the first test 1 kernel came out. my /var/log/messages is filled with these two lines over and over kernel: CIFS VFS: Error 0xfffffffb or (-5 decimal) on cifs_get_inode_info in lookup kernel: CIFS VFS: Need to reconnect after session died to server
How do things look with the current update kernel ? There have been a boatload of CIFS fixes since 2.6.3
Things are going great now. I currently am pulling backups from a windows 2003 server and cifs is solid.