[Fedora] Re: Alternatives to du

[Alan Cox]

> this is exactly my problem I believe.  I have a 4TB RAID SAN and the 
> problem directory holds well over a million small files.  Even a 
> directory under that directory, du takes almost 40 minutes to total up 74GB.

The directory code in ext2 and ext3 isn't designed for a million files in
a single directory. Its a bizzare corner case. If you split the files
into subdirectories (eg by a hash) you'll get far saner numbers