On 02Oct2020 16:57, Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote: >... by the way I just timed a 'du' on my main directory full of >(maildir) directories:- > > chris$ time du -sm * [...] > real 0m0.109s > user 0m0.032s > sys 0m0.076s > >(and, no, I didn't cheat, that was a 'cold start' du, I hadn't just >run one before) > >Even *copying* the whole of my 1.5Gb mail hierarchy takes only 8 >seconds.
Looks like your filesystem is superior to mine. Mine's MacOS apfs, I presume yours is a good Linux fs of some kind. I'd be surprised if the SSD hardware were very relevant (other than being an SSD, that is). Cheers, Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au>
