Robin Lee Powell wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 05:42:55PM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote: >> Just to give a sense of scale here: >> >> # date ; find /pictures -xdev -type f -printf "%h\n" >/tmp/dirs ; date >> Tue Dec 15 12:50:57 PST 2009 >> Tue Dec 15 17:26:44 PST 2009 >> >> (something I ran to try to figure out how to partition the tree) >> >> The other one isn't even close to finishing, as far as I can tell. > > Just for amusement: > > # date ; find /data -xdev -type f -printf "%h\n" >/tmp/dirs ; date > Tue Dec 15 12:51:17 PST 2009 > [snip many errors caused by things disappearing during the walk] > Wed Dec 16 00:55:52 PST 2009 > > RedHat GFS *really* doesn't like directories with large numbers of > files. It's not a big fan of stat() calls, either.
Usually it is just simple physics. The disk head can only be in on place at a time. It's never where you want it, and it is slow to move. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/