I'm trying to generate a sorted list of inodes on my filesystem (so I can optimize a GFS2 backup workflow). The filesystem has >1 million inodes, so generating this list can take a little bit of time.
I initially attempted to do this via Python, but all of its calls appear to be too high level and result in stat() being called on every file. I then tried using find: find . -printf "%-15i %h/%f\n" However, this also appears to call stat() on every file -- presumably because the call to printf means I might want other information not necessarily provided via a readdir()/getdents() calls (?) I came across this[1] but it seems to refer specifically to -inum and not a case where I want to output an inode number and filename only. Can someone advise as to the most efficient way to generate a list of inode / filename pairs for my entire filesystem using find? I have tried with both findutils 4.2 and 4.4 (I realize the bug I mentioned above is only in 4.5) from RHEL 5.4 and Fedora 11 respectively. Thanks, Ray [1] http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=24342#options
