Bruce Sterling Woodcock wrote:
Your best bet is to just do a reboot, which will only interrupt service for a few minutes.
I see people say that a lot: "Just reboot, service will be interrupted for only a moment." or "No one will notice."
That's true for NFS, but it royally pisses off my CIFS users whenever I do that, as they lose work, so I never "just reboot" to fix anything. Rebooting is the LAST resort to fixing a problem. I really don't see how you folks can get away with it without your CIFS users lynching you ...
-ste