[Bug 211631] Re: Network is brought down before network filesystems are unmounted (CIFS timeout at shutdown)
Clint Byrum
clint at fewbar.com
Tue May 24 22:29:40 UTC 2011
Excerpts from bdoe's message of Tue May 24 20:54:25 UTC 2011:
> >On a functional level perhaps it is worth considering whether Network
> >Manager, on stopping, should simply leave the interfaces as currently
> >configured instead of taking them down. I can make the argument that
> >Network Manager is a tool to make it easy for the user to control
> >network interfaces, but Network Manager is not the owner of those
> >interfaces, the system and user are. If the user makes a connection using
> >Network Manger and then disables NM, why shouldn't the interface stay
> >up until the user or a shutdown sequence takes it down?
>
> Good point. However, an argument could also be made that if a user uses
> Network Manager to set up and establish the network connections, the
> user expects Network Manager to own and manage those connections. A
> logical extension of this expectation is that, when Network Manager is
> shut down, it takes its connections with it. If the user wants a more
> "permanent" connection, then the user should set up the connection
> manually. At least, that's the way I would expect things to work.
Right, lets make sure this discussion happens in the right place,
which would be in the GNOME bug report.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/211631
Title:
Network is brought down before network filesystems are unmounted (CIFS
timeout at shutdown)
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