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                 |  | UGU: Unix Guru Universe - Unix Tip #4390- March 19, 2025
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STALE MOUNT HANGS LS 
Often times a stale NFS mount
 point can hang a long listing
 of a directory (ls -al).
 
 To avoid this make the mount
 point down one level.
 
 So instead of:
 
 mount rocket:/people /people
 
 If the system rocket was down
 the chances of a long listing
 
 % ls -al /
 
 of the root directory would
 hang for a long period until
 the NFS mount timed out.
 
 Avoid this with most flavors
 by
 
 mount rocket:/people /rocket/people
 
 then a long listing of root
 
 % ls -al /
 
 would work, but
 
 % ls -al /rocket
 
 would hang due to the stale
 mount point.
 
 
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