[Fedora] Re: Alternatives to du

[Mark Haney]

Alan Cox wrote:
>> tracking a lot of hard links, it might be using a lot of memory -- I'd
>> think it would have to store the inode number for each multi-linked file.
>> I don't know what it does with hard-linked directories (but don't use
>> hard-linked directories!).
> 
> Compare the performance to a "find . -size 1024" >/dev/null
> 
> The find is fetching as much inode and name space data but shouldn't be
> doing any link work.
> 

I just tried this on the same 3TB volume as the du and I get almost 
identical results, ~90 minutes.



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Mark Haney
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