[cifs-protocol] [Pfif] [REG: 110120160951867] Requesting clarification of CIFS client timeout behavior

[Jeremy Allison]

On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 06:22:01PM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote:
> 
> Treating different calls differently for timeouts sounds like the road
> to special-case madness. It seems to me that the best behavior would be
> to have the client wait for a reply indefinitely if the server is
> responding to periodic echoes. If that's unacceptable then perhaps a
> tunable timeout that defaults to something very long (10 minutes or so).

+1 from me. "hard" mounts shouldn't drop connections whilst the
server is responding to SMBecho requests.

Jeremy.