Package: shfs Severity: minor Yesterday, our firewall had to be rebooted, causing all connections to become invalidated. I still had an shfs mount across the firewall, which subsequently caused a lot of problems on the client: umount fails, /bin/ls fails in the parent directory (which was ~ for me, thus disabling firefox, openoffice, and other which seem to need to enumerate ~ before starting).
I understand that NFS also behaves similarly, but the big difference
is that NFS eventually recovers, since it uses UDP and thus does not
insist on a single connection.
I see two solutions:
1. either make shfs free all resources after it decides that the
connection must be down.
2. make shfs try a second connection periodically when the first
blocks. If the second succeeds, free the first one.
Thanks for your consideration.
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