[Linux-cluster] gfs2 v. zfs?

[Jeff Sturm]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-cluster-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:linux-cluster-bounces at redhat.com]
> On Behalf Of yvette hirth
> Subject: Re: [Linux-cluster] gfs2 v. zfs?
> 
> ls -lhad /foo/stuff/moreStuff/*
> 
> is where response time increases by a magnitude, because moreStuff has
> ~260 directories.  enumerating moreStuff and other "directories with many
> subdirectories" appear to be the culprits.

Try "unalias ls" before you do that.  Does it make a difference?

On my systems (and probably most CentOS/Red Hat) I have:

	$ alias ls
	alias ls='ls --color=tty'

defined in /etc/profile.d/colorls.sh.  This results in an extra stat() system call per file in the output listing to determine the node type.

-Jeff