How to prevent lockup when accessing network share

[Krik658]

Hi!

When I access a network share MC locks up for a few seconds until the share responds. An HDD has to wake up and that takes time.
Is there a way to prevent the lockup? Or is it possible to restrict it only to the panel in which I access the share?

I mounted the share in the fstab like this:
//alpha/krik /home/krik/NAS/Home cifs _netdev,nofail,credentials=/etc/samba/credentials,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0

[ossilator]

entering directories is currently a synchronous operation, so there is no way to prevent it.

i guess one could make it async, keeping the other panel responsive. but that sounds like an awful lot of work for a somewhat questionable benefit. i'd find it more interesting to be able to just cancel entering a directory.

[Krik658]

The lockups happen to me multiple times a day. I would benefit from an async access.

[ossilator]

the question is what value this would add over just canceling the open and going somewhere else. what would you be doing in the mean time? i certainly wouldn't be able to multi-task at this level to effectively use the time in the other panel.

[Krik658]

I would use the time to navigate in the second panel, to prepare for file transfer.