Indeed, for a very large directory you might get some speedup using samples/ilm/mmfind directory -ls -maxdepth 1 There are some caveats, the same as those for the command upon which mmfind rests, mmapplypolicy. From: Skylar Thompson <skylar2 at u.washington.edu> To: gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org Date: 11/30/2017 04:44 PM Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] FIle system vs Database Sent by: gpfsug-discuss-bounces at spectrumscale.org Interesting, thanks for the information Marc. Could there be an improvement for something like "ls -l some-dir" using the API, though? Instead of getdents + stat for every file (entering and leaving kernel mode many times), could it be done in one operation with one context switch? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://gpfsug.org/pipermail/gpfsug-discuss_gpfsug.org/attachments/20171130/4e738bf8/attachment.html>