I have merged this patch, but I agree with the hint in the comment below - given all of the complaints about "chattiness" of Windows cifs behavior, we need to allow this to be tuned for slow WANs in subsequent patch. +/* SMB echo "timeout" -- FIXME: tunable? */ +#define SMB_ECHO_INTERVAL (60 * HZ) Had you made a patch for that? If not, I can easily put something together. Problem is it is a link issue not a "system-wide" issue so probably needs to be mount option (and we have a lot of these, and this would not be a commonly used one) -- Thanks, Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html