On Sep 18, 2015, at 3:21 AM, Bernhard Voelker <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 09/18/2015 05:30 AM, adavies42 wrote: > >> somewhere between 8.12 and 8.20, du seems to have acquired the behavior of >> stat'ing all mountpoints during its startup >> >> why does it do this? it seems to have no connection to what's being du'd, >> and if stat blocks on one of the mountpoints (e.g. in some FUSE failure >> scenarios), it means the entire du run blocks, even if the broken mount has >> no connection to what i'm actually trying to do >> > > Thanks for the report. > Indeed, the stat()ing of all mount points can easily be avoided > by doing it only when needed, i.e., when FTS has detected a > directory cycle (FTS_DC). The attached does this. > > Would you mind giving us your name so that I can mention it > as "Reported by: ..."? Thanks for the quick fix. You can credit me as "Aaron Davies". -- Aaron Davies [email protected]
