On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 22:50 -0400, Mag Gam wrote: > Would it be more efficient to use rsync to get filestats instead of > using the 'find' command? I would like to know how big a directory is > on a filesystem, but this directory has millions of small files. I was > wondering if rsync would be more efficient than find when using "-n" > options.
I assume that by "filestats" you mean stat(2) information for each file, not aggregate statistics. My guess is that "find" would be faster than "rsync -n" because it doesn't send the stat information to other processes like rsync does. In addition, "find -printf" has a configurable output format, while the "rsync --list-only" output format is fixed. Matt -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
