Re: du always stats all mount points now?

[Bernhard Voelker]

On 09/18/2015 05:30 AM, adavies42 wrote:
> somewhere between 8.12 and 8.20, du seems to have acquired the behavior of 
> stat'ing all mountpoints during its startup
> 
> why does it do this? it seems to have no connection to what's being du'd, and 
> if stat blocks on one of the mountpoints (e.g. in some FUSE failure 
> scenarios), it means the entire du run blocks, even if the broken mount has 
> no connection to what i'm actually trying to do
> 

Thanks for the report.
Indeed, the stat()ing of all mount points can easily be avoided
by doing it only when needed, i.e., when FTS has detected a
directory cycle (FTS_DC).  The attached does this.

Would you mind giving us your name so that I can mention it
as "Reported by: ..."?

Have a nice day,
Berny

0001-du-avoid-to-stat-all-mount-points-if-possible.patch
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