Re: readdir vs. getattr

Tigran Mkrtchyan
2013-04-04T18:28:46Z

Ok, by tweaking the values of acregmin and acregmax I got the expected
behaviour.

What about this double GETATTR on directory itself?

Tigran.

On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 6:35 PM, Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu> wrote:
> Myklebust, Trond wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2013-04-04 at 12:01 -0400, Jim Rees wrote:
> > Chuck Lever wrote:
> >
> > > So is this a "ls -l"? Because for "ls" it shouldn't stat all the files.
> >
> > Default these days is ls --color
> >
> > No it's not, at least not on linux. From the man page:
> >
> > "Using color to distinguish file types is disabled both by default and with
> > --color=never."
>
> Yes, but a number of Linux distros override that in /etc/profile. For
> instance all Red Hat/Fedora distros have aliases for ls that map them to
> 'ls --color=auto'
>
> I was actually just trying to figure out whether the application (ls) was
> doing all those file stats, or whether readdir was somehow doing them by
> mistake. Sounds like it's the application.