df

Paul Raines <[email protected]> Tue, 30 Dec 2003 16:53:38 -0500 (EST)

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.fileutils.bugs
Message-ID	<Pine.LNX.4.44.0312301650570.24097-100000@gate.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>

We have a very large automount map at our site with over 200 Linux
boxes.  This means it almost more often the case than not that some
volume is NFS mounted from a server that is down.

When doing a 'df', it will hang when it gets to that system which
is not unexpected.  But when doing a 'df /specific/vol' where 
/specific/vol is a perfecting good working NFS mount, it still
hangs.  Doing an strace reveals that df even when giving a specific
volume still goes out and checks every single volume mounted.
This make df a near useless program for us.

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Paul Raines                   email: [email protected]
MGH/MIT/HMS Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
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