Automatic ls colours can be slow / 2018-11-23

I noticed certain commands taking a while to start, including a simple ls. At last I got annoyed enough to diagnose the whole situation and found out the problem is the combination of symbolic links in the listed directory pointing to filesystems behind automounter, one mounted filesystem coming from a NAS with sleeping disk and ls --color doing a stat() on the target of a symbolic link to find the type of the target file to be able to select a colour.

My solution: find the source of the alias and disable it.