Unix Tip: STALE MOUNT HANGS LS

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Unix Tip 2984 - April 8, 2010

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STALE MOUNT HANGS LS

Often times a stale NFS mount point can hang a long listing of a directory (ls -al).

To avoid this make the mount point down one level.

So instead of:

mount rocket:/people /people

If the ystem rocket was down the chances of a long listing

% ls -al /

of the root directory would hang for a long period until the NFS mount timed out.

Avoid this with most flavors by

mount rocket:/people /rocket/people

then a long listing of root

% ls -al /

would work, but

% ls -al /rocket

would hang due to the stale mount point.

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