Re: cifs mount failing

BJ Taylor wrote:

> 
> I didn't see any messages in /var/log/messages that were related.

Strange!

> I will update the systems again this week, and if we can still reproduce
> the issue, I will report it in the bugzilla. 
> 
> Is there any way to increase the verbosity of the client logging?  I

There is a client-side mechanism which could be enabled for debugging.

echo 3 > /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI
(the values can be 1 (info) or 3 (rc) or 7 (timer) )

But this is for code-level debugging and not logging.

> don't even know which service is the most directly related to cifs
> folders, or is this just part of the kernel itself?  I wish I had more

cifs kernel module is the one.

> concrete information to put in bugzilla so that it won't just be
> dismissed as 'not reproducable'.  Any suggestions on that?

http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs/Samba#Debugging_cifs_vfs_client

might help.

Thanks,


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Suresh Jayaraman