[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#431966: Bug#431966: Any progress?

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Sander Marechal]
> Hello, 
> 
> Has there been any progress on this issue in the last year? As of today, 
> this issue still exists on Lenny. The umountcifs script I posted a year ago 
> still works, but under Lenny it needs to run at K12 instead of K19. 
> 
> I'd greatly appreciate it if this thing can be tackled before Lenny becomes 
> stable.

The new initscripts have a feature called sendsigs omitpit, which can
be used to register pids that should survive sendsigs during shutdown.
This allow processes needed to umount cifs file systems to survive
until umountnfs is executed.  I'm working on implementing this for NFS
(portmap and nfs-common), to make sure the NFS support tools are alive
until after NFS is umounted.  I recommend the same is done for cifs,
in some relevant cifs package.

Also, if there is a problem with cifs not being threated as a network
file system, it might help to use _netdev as an option.  It is an
instruction to the boot system to mount the file system at the same
time as NFS and other net file systems are mounted, and to umount them
in umountnfs.

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen