[Fedora] Re: Alternatives to du

[alan]

On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Alan Cox wrote:

>> 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

I think you meant "coroner case". ]:>

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