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From: "Daniel L. Miller" <dmiller@amfes.com>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Delay in folder access
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 10:48:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <assp.0551ab50e4.500D8E64.2040301@amfes.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <500D8D6C.8090707@amfes.com>

On 7/23/2012 10:44 AM, Daniel L. Miller wrote:
> On 7/23/2012 3:28 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>> On 7/23/2012 1:29 AM, Daniel L. Miller wrote:
>>> I have an XFS partition on simple 4-disk RAID-10 array.  The array is
>>> mounted at /raid.  I have a variety of subfolders - one of which is
>>> /raid/data - which in turn has a number of subfolders.
>>>
>>> Doing a simple "ls /raid" has no problems.  Similarly, no issues with
>>> "ls /raid/data/stuff".  But ... executing "ls /raid/data" results in a
>>> delay, sometimes in minutes, before it returns.
>> How many files are in /raid/data, excluding subdirs?  If it's many tens
>> of thousands ls will be slow, but I'd not think multiple minutes worth
>> of slow.
> 0 files, 7 subdirs, 1 symlink

I think I figured it out - and it has absolutely nothing to do with 
XFS.  That symlink?  It's to an autofs nfs mount - which doesn't exist.

Removing the symlink seems to have resolved the issue.
-- 
Daniel

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-07-23 17:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-23  6:29 Delay in folder access Daniel L. Miller
2012-07-23 10:28 ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-07-23 11:48   ` Dave Chinner
2012-07-23 17:44   ` Daniel L. Miller
     [not found]   ` <500D8D6C.8090707@amfes.com>
2012-07-23 17:48     ` Daniel L. Miller [this message]

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