[Fedora] Re: Alternatives to du

[Alan Cox]

> Unfortunately, in this case, the directory structure is what it is.  I 
> can't change it without a massive amount of pain.

Then you won't get sane performance. The ext3 directory hash does what it
can to improve performance in this case but you'll probably find most of
your extra overhead (compared to users with sane directory structures) is
simply down to filename lookup and directory scanning overhead.

Alan