Chung Hang Christopher Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Solaris find calls stat(2) on all files to determine
> > whether they are
> > directories; this requires *all* inodes to be
> > brought into memory.
> >
> > 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?!
I am not sure what you understan by this....
Try to use GNU find on a mounted CD and see that it does
not find anything that is not in the root directory.
> > Unfortunately, GNU find's optimization is incorrect
> > for a number of
> > filesystems and GNU find therefor may give an
> > incorrect answer but will
> > give it more quickly. Solaris will give the correct
> > answer in all cases,
> > but not as fast as GNU find.
>
> 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.
It gives typically a speedup of 5x
Jörg
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