mounted directory repeating unexpected files and directories

Rashkae ubuntu at tigershaunt.com
Mon Dec 15 19:14:08 UTC 2008


NoOp wrote:
> On 12/14/2008 07:43 PM, Rashkae wrote:
> 
>> The new kernel module is cifs.  smbfs was left in there because it was
>> needed to connect to old file servers (such as Windows for Workgroups).
>>  I think cifs works for that now as well, but don't quote me on that.
>>
>> smbfs package is still needed, but your fstab should be mounding cifs
>> where possible.  The most immediate difference you will notice, smbfs
>> does not support files > 2GB, wheras cifs does.
>>
> 
> Thanks for the info. Found:
> http://samba.org/samba/smbfs/
>   http://linux-cifs.samba.org/
> 
> G.
> 
> 

The interesting part though, I was re-reading Noah's message, and I see
that even though he specified smbfs in fstab, the mtab shows the
filesystem as cifs.

Looks like smbfs was finally removed from the kernel and is now just an
alias for cifs.






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