William,
it might be perhaps related to the GetMinimum() call done by gdalinfo.
Cf https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/5444
But normally it should only try to open the first source, and not all of
them. At least that's what I could confirm on a quick testing. But I do
see that the CanUseSourc
I'm writing a script that needs some info from a vrt raster, and one has
thousands of files. When reading the vrt over the internet (vpn to our server)
it takes a long time. I think it's looking at every file of the vrt. What is
gdal reading from the files that's not in the vrt itself? I used a
