What is a better way to deal with server disconnects of sshfs mounts?

I have several directories mounted through *sshfs*. I sometimes get disconnects from the server (not configurable by me). I usually mount the directories like this sshfs user@server.example.com:/home/user /mnt/example When a server disconnects, the sshfs subsystem doesn't *umount / free* the directory but instead locks it inaccessible. The mount is still visible when typing mount. When I type ls /mnt/example the process gets locked (also Ctrl+c doesn't help). I therefore do sudo umount -l /mnt/example # find pid of corresponding process: ps aux | grep example.com kill -9 Is there a better way to deal with this? Obviously *sshfs* should do the *umount* and clean up... Ideally it would reconnect automatically.