Comment 34 for bug 159031

The consideration of using some kind of modern approach to work with files is good until you ask to rewrite all legacy application. That is not feasible approach as ubuntu should be rewritten as well. I have the Ubuntu 10.04.2 with gnome desktop and the taskbars freeze, gedit freeze, nautilus freeze when I disconnect (and/or reconnect) to the VPN.
kill -9 all sshfs processes can not help immediately. I need to wait ~5 min for taskbars are restarted but nautilus and gedit still do not work.That means reboot. I believe that it is just a bug of sshfs implementation that is not able to report network problem as a file problem gracefully. That is a great architecture gain if the top level application need no knowledge if the file is local or network. As for me the bug has no workaround yet. The process list is in attachment.