I am finding a large performance gap between plain "ls" and "ls -F" in a directory with many files on a network share (NetApp disguised as NTFS if that matters). This has been there for quite a while, I've just now realized what the reason was (I have "ls -F" as an alias for "ls" in my interactive shells). In a directory with 1300 files, a plain "ls" completes in 0.3s, while "ls -F" requires about 95s. Determining the file class seems to require around 70...90ms per file, which I can confirm also for directories with a lot less files. What's involved in that determination that takes such a long time?
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