[Thunar-dev] Thunar hangs when the users home is on NFS mount

[Ben Ford]

Stephan Arts wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Harald Schmalzbauer
> <h.schmalzbauer at omnisec.de> wrote:
>   
>> Chris Shenton wrote:
>>     
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>>  Actually it's a problem with the thumbnail/.cache/NFS interaction.
>>  I'm fine with symlinking ~/.cache (the NFS home) to
>>  /usr/local/home/user/.cache/ (a machine-dependend local home, also for
>>  .config and .gconf in my case), for example.
>>     
>
> This sounds logical, thunar creates (and loads) thumbnails for every
> file it can. This results in some very massive network traffic when
> viewing a folder.
>
> You could argue that reading and writing thumbnails should be less
> intrusive, but I wouldn't really know how.
>
> @Benny, do you have an idea if this is possible?
>   

Why not cache remote filesystems to /tmp/thunar/...?

-b