Delay in folder access

[Daniel L. Miller]

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