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Date:      Wed, 20 Sep 1995 09:30:56 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        ywliu@lin.wsl.sinica.edu.tw (Yen-Wei Liu)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Why "ls -la" hangs ?
Message-ID:  <199509201630.JAA00996@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <199509200706.AAA21473@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Yen-Wei Liu" at Sep 20, 95 02:51:04 pm

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> After further tracing, "ls -la" would go into an infinite loop, which 
> I believe was a result of file system corruption. Fsck gave me no
> error.
> 
> I decide to reformat and reinstall it. But I just wonder why "ls -la"
> would go into an infinite loop, and if that's because the corruption of
> the files system, what would bring up this.

"ls -la" does a stat.  Plain "ls" does not.

Your problem is that your NFS server is not responding for one of the
mounted subdirectories of the directory being "ls"'ed.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.



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