Re^2: Automatically distributing and finding files in subdirectories

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The big problem with linux and directory listing is the expensive lstat call done by ls. I had a case where listing took minutes, the directory contained somewhat over 300.000 files.

The cheapest way to get at the files at the system level is find $dir which doesn't call lstat.

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Re^3: Automatically distributing and finding files in subdirectories by rodion (Chaplain) on Jul 18, 2006 at 12:02 UTC
Dohhh! Thanks for bringing up the lstat in ls. I'll update the previous post so no one gets mis-lead.	[reply]

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