NAS and managing electrical mains

[Francesco Antonetti Lamorgese Passeri]

Il 19/01/2012 14:51, Francesco Antonetti Lamorgese Passeri ha scritto:
> Hi,
>
> I've Kubuntu 11.10 on my notebook and a Lacie NAS wired to my home 
> LAN. Usually i mount the shares on the NAS as local file systems 
> (/mnt/NAS), to make it usable for certain software not supporting 
> network protocols. I would solve this problem: sometimes happens the 
> elctrical mains goes down suddenly, so my notebook loses the 
> connection to the NAS. In this case, if i turn off the notebook, it 
> takes several minutes to shutdown, beacuse, i suppose, the system 
> don't recognizes the connection loss. How can i instruct the system to 
> recognize the connection loss quickly and unmount the remote partitions?
>
> Thank you very much
>
> Francesco
Maybe i'm wrong, but: can udev recognize deviceses on the network, like 
my NAS, and manage it like a virtual local partition?