Yeah, I'm seeing this same thing -- trying to change the owner of a large (existing) directory recursively is taking 10-20 times as long using the "file" module vs just using chown -R, so I've opted to use the latter in our playbooks.
On Wednesday, September 19, 2012 12:57:17 PM UTC-4, Aleksej Romanov wrote: > > I tried. > > $ cp -r /usr/ /tmp/ &>/dev/null > $ find /tmp/usr | wc -l > 130615 > $ time chgrp -R user /tmp/usr/ > > real 0m0.372s > user 0m0.048s > sys 0m0.320s > $ time ansible -c local -i /tmp/i 127.0.0.1 -m file -a 'path=/tmp/usr \ > group=user state=directory recurse=yes' &>/dev/null > > real 0m7.696s > user 0m5.488s > sys 0m2.192s > > So it is much slower, but still only 7 seconds with quite large directory. > Assuming that one usually would use this for own project's files, not /, > it should be quick enough. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/300a6f17-ffe8-40bf-b505-020a9fc0ffd1%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
