Follow-up Comment #1, bug #51345 (project findutils): This is strange, indeed. Furthermore, it would be good to have more information to reproduce the issue. To narrow things down, I suggest that you log the system calls into logfiles using "strace -v -o logfile find ...". Next, it is unclear to me what you mean by "first time" vs. "next times": when mounting the filesystem for the first time after creation, after each reboot, after mounting the filesystem on a running system, first time after ...? Furthermore, what filesystem type are you using? Don't other Debian users have the same issue? What's different there? To be honest, I don't think this is a find(1) issue, as all subsequent calls seem to be stable. So this would point more to the direction of the kernel or filesystem.
Finally, could you reproduce with latest findutils-4.6? And which kind of find(1) do you run: oldfind or the new FTS-based version? Have a nice day, Berny _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51345> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/