Re: gmc with afs (sorta) hangs

["Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery ece cmu edu>]

On Thursday, February 08, 2001 11:53:26 -0600, steve rader 
<rader ginseng physics wisc edu> wrote:
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| Hello,
|
| Anybody home that knows gmc?
|
| I just fired up gnome on some afs client nodes and found that gmc is
| not a happy camper: strace sez it's "hanging" at least 30 minutes
| ('prolly more like two hours) while it opens/looks at about 150,000
| AFS cache files in /cache.
|
| I know this may be just an initial conditions problem, but it's
| still bogus.
|
| Is there some way to tell gmc to not traverse a given directory?  How?
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There's supposed to be a way, but I've found it less than reliable; it 
still has an annoying tendency to try to enumerate root.afs periodically, 
with predictably painful results.

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