[Borgbackup] Mounting a big repository is very fast

[Marian Beermann]

On 31.08.2016 11:20, Gerrit A. Smit wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 
> Mounting a very big archive takes some time but it works as expected.
> 
> Using this
> 
> # BORG_REPO=/blauw/borg/repos/sanger borg mount --verbose ::
> /data/borg/fuse
> 
> to mount a very big repository is very fast, but then this happens:
> 
> zfsborg_ksh # cd /data/borg/fuse
> # Now I want to list the archives:
> zfsborg_ksh # ls
> ls: .: Operation timed out
> zfsborg_ksh # man ls
> 
> This last one hangs, probably because man wants to access the current
> directory
> which lives in the fuse-fs.
> 
> Meanwhile, borg is still busy preparing the fuse-fs.
> 
> 
> Any thoughts?

Operating system? On Linux with gnu coreutils that ls is instantaneous.
Perhaps the ls used does a bit more poking around with the directories,
causing Borg to fetch the metadata for each archive.

In case you run into any trouble try the --foreground option to borg
mount to see the log output.

Cheers, Marian