In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> so spake Tom Bombadil (grlists):
> I guess this is a stupid question... > > But is there any way to get a list of all files in the filesystem > without using 'find'? > > For a big drive with millions of small files, running find is just too slow. If all you want is a list of all files on the filesystem you could use ncheck, assuming this is a local filesystem. Since ncheck reads the filesystem metadata itself it is pretty fast. - todd