These questions definitely need further investigation. :-)

First of all we need to know 
 * which backends are able to recover from a temporary connection drop and 
 * which backends are able to recover from a permanent connection drop with IP 
address change.

According to my experiences sftp backend recovers quite well from
temporary drops but it fails to recover from IP address change. (since
it is using ssh over TCP behind the scenes)

My very new idea: in if-up we should somehow detect whether or not the
IP address has changed since the last connection and we should unmount
remote shares only if it has changed.

Or we should provide a configuration option to distinct "roaming laptop
mode" from "always connected desktop mode".

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gvfs should unmount remote mounts on network disconnect
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