'ls' hangs FC6

[Mark Haney]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 08:06 -0400, Mark Haney wrote:
>> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 17:15 -0400, Joe Smith wrote:
>>>> Mark Haney wrote:
>>>>> And yes /bin/ls --color=tty hangs.  In fact, I changed it to color=auto 
>>>>> and THAT hangs as well.  I changed the ls alias to be just 'ls' and that 
>>>>> works fine for all directories that were hanging  before.  But now, ls 
>>>>> -l hangs too.  Man, this is weird.
>>>> Both colorizing the names based on the file type and getting the file 
>>>> metadata for a long listing require reading each file's inode, whereas 
>>>> 'ls' showing only the name requires only reading the directory data.
>>> If that's the case then "ls -l" should also hang. Does it?
>>>
>>> poc
>>>
>> ls -l /does/ hang in those cases, /with/ and /without/ the color option. 
>>   However, the hang is different.  With ls --color=tty the hang locks 
>> the entire ssh session.  Whereas I can CTRL+C out of the ls -l hang.
>>
>> So you think this is inode/disk related?
> Since this happens in only one directory I would think it is the
> directory that is the problem.
> 
> Try: echo * 
> in that directory and see what you get.
> 

It /doesn't/ happen in only one directory.  It just happens that I'm 
doing my testing in one particular directory.
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