Hello,
I am running "du (GNU coreutils) 5.93". When executing e.g.
du --separate-dirs --summarize /etc/
you are only interested in the total space consumed by stuff in /etc/, not
within any subfolders. But nevertheless du traverses all subdirectories,
regardless if "--summarize" is set or not. This has no effect on the produced
output / numeric result for /etc/.
Is there a reason the traversal still happens? This causes a lot of (in my
humble opinion) unncessary IO.
Here is a sample output of running with and without --summarize. Numbers for
/etc/ are identical, but IO happens in both cases the same.
somehost:/ # du --separate-dirs --block-size=1 /etc/
94208 /etc/udev/rules.d
8192 /etc/udev
4096 /etc/skel/.fonts
4096 /etc/skel/.mozilla
8192 /etc/skel/.xemacs
4096 /etc/skel/bin
8192 /etc/skel/Documents
8192 /etc/skel/public_html
81920 /etc/skel
4096 /etc/SuSEconfig
8192 /etc/X11/xim.d
...
...
8192 /etc/gre.d
4096 /etc/autoinstall
3076096 /etc/
somehost:/ # du --separate-dirs --block-size=1 --summarize /etc/
3076096 /etc/
Thanks and Regards,
Volker Badziong
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