My apologies to all for the original post of this, which had In-Reply-To and other headers that apparently caused some confusion. Here's a clean post.
I need to suppress checking of CIFS mounts to avoid piling up IO-blocked processes when a mount hangs. What hobbit file/program controls the "df" command used for the disk check? The DF= and DFCMD= lines in hobbitclient.cfg are commented "DF,DFCMD and PS are for compatibility only, NOT USED by the Hobbit client", and sure enough when I add "-xcifs" to those lines I still get the CIFS mounts after restarting the hobbit-client service.
I'm also not sure what to make of the fact that the "About Hobbit" page says that all configuration is centralized, yet the hobbitclient.cfg on my 4.2.0-6 and 4.2.0-7 clients says "include /var/lib/hobbit-client/runtime.cfg" (which exists on those machines), but on my 4.2.0-1 server says "include /var/run/hobbitclient-runtime.cfg" (which exists on that machine).