--On Wednesday, August 24, 2005 10:11:04 -0600 Graeme Humphries 
<graeme.humphries AT vcom DOT com> wrote:

> So, you guys may recall I was having problems with amcheck and amdump taking 
> ridiculously long. Well, it turns out that because on that client box, there 
> was a dead Samba mount. As you guys know, when there's a Samba mount that's 
> timed out, or the
> remote machine is unavailable, any operation checking mounted partitions 
> takes forever and eventually times out.
> 
> So... what in Amanda is checking mounted partitions on every operation, and 
> can we limit to only the partitions we're actually backing up? :)

I don't think Amanda checks all your mounts.  However, many filesystem
operations 'stat' their way up the directory structure to /, and if
you mount things directly in / (such as /remotedir) instead of down
a level (/mnt/remotedir) many of those ops will hang if that mount
is hung.  Not sure if this even applies in your situation, it's just 
something I've observed with hung NFS mounts in /.

Amanda does do a df of a couple of places (indexdir and tmp perhaps?)
but I doubt those would hang unless they happened to be on your hung
mount.

Frank

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> 
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