Re: gmc with afs (sorta) hangs

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico ximian com>]

steve rader <rader ginseng physics wisc edu> writes:

> 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?

Look in $(sysconfdir)/mc.global.  You can lists such special
directories there.

  Federico