> (the S=2872 is the file size. i'm not sure why stat is so > expensive on their machine.)
I suspect it's *not* because of this: AFS directories are (essentially) whole-file transferred to clients who interpret them locally, but each stat() requires an RPC to the server. Instead my guess would be something more like: if you're rebuilding the quota database you can do so by N/M readdir()'s instead of N/M readdir()'s plus N stat()'s, which is probably a huge reduction in disk seeks, which would be attractive since almost everything stat() would be telling you would be irrelevant (e.g., inode number, permissions, actual disk blocks consumed). Dave Eckhardt
