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Is it just me, or if you have a mounted network share on your PC and the connection to the server goes down, the file manager (Konqueror or Nautalis) or even bash, hangs when trying to get a listings of the directory that has the mount (now stale) in it ??
Is there anyway to prevent this ? A real show stopper to wait 5 mins or more, or restart your system to get resonsivness back.
How are you mounting your server folders (fstab/manual/NFS/SMB)??? What mount options are you using? You may need to look at the intr for the client mount option.
I'll post below my fstab
I havent played with 'intr' options, did add 'timeo' option recently in a hope that would do it, but nothing good has come of it. [Konqueror has been hung for 5 hours now since I dropped the server to init 1 and back up again]
I run Gnome at work and mount smb shares and Nautalis hangs just the same when the connection to the samba is dropped some how.
There must be a better way.
Thanks.
PS dual booting Kubuntu and Mepis, this is Mepis' fstab, hence the lvm slash partitioned mount not on /
Not real familiar with the smb side of this, from what i have read, nfs and smb expect the network to stay up, not much avail in way of handling dropout connections. If you know u are going bring it down, you might try unmounting them prior to doing so...but for the work one where it may go down with no warning that wont help. That is about it for the extent of what I can provide without doing further reading.
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