Peng Yu <pengyu...@gmail.com> writes: > There are ~7000 .txt files in a directory on glusterfs. Here are the run > time of the following two commands. Does anybody know why the find command > is much slower than *.txt? Is there a way to change the API that `find` > uses to search files so that it can be more friendly to > glusterfs?
It's a remarkable result, given that bash isn't likely to use a interface/algorithm that's more sophisticated than find's. One thing I'd check is if there are any subdirectories present, or use -maxdepth to ensure that find isn't looking at subdirectories. Dale
