James Youngman <j...@gnu.org> writes:
> Perhaps stat calls are relatively
> expensive on glusterfs (this happens on at least some other cluster
> filesystems because obtaining a correct value fort st_size requires finding
> the consensus answer for the current length of the file, while obtaining
> the list of items in a directory may not require the same amount of locking
> or consensus work
This has a bunch of interesting ramifications. If you couch the 'find'
command correctly,
find . -maxdepth 1 -name '*.txt'
'find' does not need to do a 'stat' on the items in '.'. And in that
case, it should not, since you've noted that 'stat' might be expensive.
Dale
