'ls' hangs FC6

[Mark Haney]

Reid Rivenburgh wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Kevin J. Cummings
> <cummings at kjchome.homeip.net> wrote:
>>  I've seen it wait long periods of time doing "ls /" when the root
>>  directory contains links to networked directories which are either on
>>  machines which are no longer running or having problems.
> 
> Similarly, I had a symbolic link in my home directory to a nonexistent
> file under autofs's /misc directory.  Anything that tried to access my
> home directory froze.  Very frustrating, though running an ls under
> strace helped pinpoint the problem.  (I don't know why referring to a
> nonexistent file under /misc would suddenly and out of the blue cause
> it to hang, that's another issue....)
> 
> reid
> 

Here's what I'm not quite getting with all this.  I can ls in certain 
directories with hardlinks (I'm using rsnapshot to backup our servers to 
the SAN) and the parent of one directory I can ls just fine(say backup), 
I cd into the only child in the directory( cd bak/, so now pwd shows 
'backup/bak/') and do an ls there and it hangs so badly I can't kill the 
process and the ssh session locks up).


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Mark Haney
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