--On Wednesday, August 24, 2005 11:02:47 -0600 Graeme Humphries 
<graeme.humphries AT vcom DOT com> wrote:

> Frank Smith wrote:
> 
>> 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 /.
>>  
>> 
> This particular case was mounted under /tmp/somedir, and amanda's set to 
> backup / on that box, so that could be it.

I think Paul's point is valid about tar's one-filesystem flag, I haven't
tried it, but perhaps if you exclude ./tmp it won't stat /tmp/somedir.
The real solution, of course, is to not have hung mounts ;-).

> 
>> 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.
>>  
>> 
> Doesn't df always scan all the mounted filesystems? Or can you restrict it?

If you call df with a filename or directory argument it only reports on
the mount point containing it.

Frank

> 
> Graeme



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