>> GNU find does not call stat on any of the "leaf" >> files because it believes >> that when a directory has only 2 hard links to it, >> no entries in the >> directory other than "." or ".." will be directories >> so requiring "stat" >> is not necessary to find more sub directories. > >Right, so this is the supposed bloat I was told about >in solaris libraries?!
No, it's an "optimization" in GNU find which works "most" of the time but not always. >over 24 hours with no result versus seconds? That >command that was used will actually not run into any >directories. queue/mess/* represents all the >directories find has to go look in. Yes, that can very well happen; reading directories is fairly quick. But without knowing the exact number of files I can't really make an estimate. "Several orders of magnitude" is what my guess would be and what you got. Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
