This is still a big issue on WiFi-enabled workstations. To put it into
perspective, we have upgraded from 8.04 LTS to 10.04 LTS and shutdown
still takes around 40 minutes for the 16 cifs mounts in FSTAB on four
workstations. Users are seriously inconvenienced.
As hinted earlier, a workaround
I am seeing the same on a Ubuntu 9.04 on CIFS mounts using the latest
smbfs package. Using Microsofts robocopy /MIR as well as ms' file
manager preserves timestamps on the server, while rsync and Nautilus
doesn't from an Ubuntu 9.04.
Issuing an rsync -a command (trying to maintain file
