Hi Thierry, Thierry Carrez wrote: > I am trying to solve the bug in the (2) case here. If you are in the > (3) case (and a lot of you probably are) you should either switch to > "system setting" mode or drop usage of CIFS mounts in favor of > Nautilus gvfs-smb mounts.
Thanks very much for the detailed explanation. I switched to "system setting" mode and this did solve the problem for me. This option is very well hidden however, so this is probably one of the reasons why there are many users who use fstab in combination with per-user network settings. (The gvfs option is not suitable for me BTW because I access the mounts mostly from scripts. And also from KDE programs -- I'm not sure those can access gvfs. :-) ) I do still think that there is something fishy going on with the long timeouts while I have nothing open on the network fs. I admit that I'm applying the same kind of logic that people do actually use for things like thumb drives -- if you don't write to them (or haven't written to them in a while) then you can remove them without thinking. It's not *technically* correct, but it's only not technically correct because the system works that way. And then we are typically trying to make the users behave in a certain way to match the behaviour of the system, instead of making sure the system behaves as the users quite reasonably expect it to. :-) Personally I think that it would be very much in line with Ubuntu's "human" philosophy to try and make the system behave as humans expect it to, which in this case is that if they haven't written anything to the fs, then there's no reason to wait for the server. Steve's analysis might give some pointers to WTF is going on here... Cheers, Bart -- CIFS/SMBFS shares not unmounted before network is shut down https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/211631 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to samba in ubuntu. -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs
