A "better" way to mount shares?

jsteel · 10-15-2011, 05:52 AM

Hi,

When I mount a share using mount -t sshfs or cifs and my network connection (wireless) is lost, my laptop hangs (while executing ls /mnt/share/ for example) for ages before giving up. I would expect if it cannot see the share after a few seconds it would give an error, yet I could be waiting minutes.

Is there a better way to go around this? More of an on-access method that would expect it to not always be available?

I mainly use the command-line to access the data.

Thanks

macemoneta · 10-15-2011, 11:32 PM

You can use autofs with a short timeout (say 5 seconds). That way, when you are not actively moving data back and forth the filesystem is unmounted, resulting in no delay.

jsteel · 10-16-2011, 07:02 AM

Thanks, that's very interesting. It works well when on the command line (if I cd onto a share it stays mounted) but if I open pcmanfm/thunar and go to the share, it unmounts after the timeout and the file browser closes. I wonder why it thinks being in a directory in a terminal is different to a GUI.