This has been puzzling me for weeks. If (as root) I type
find / -print |grep somefilename
sometimes it takes many minutes, sometimes it completes in seconds and
sometimes I get a new shell prompt but I can hear the disk grinding away for
many seconds after the command seems to have completed. What gives ?
Does Linux really maintain a huge cache of the disk directory heirarchy ? I
can think of no other explanation, but I'm not sure that I think this is a
good use of resources. Does anyone know ?
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