[Fedora] Re: Alternatives to du

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Wed Apr 11 13:18:06 UTC 2007


> 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.




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