Mildred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was thinking that perhaps caching the size of directories could bu > useful. Perhaps, after du computes the size of a directory, it could > write its size in its extended attributes (if the filesystem support > it). Next time, du would only compare the directory atime (or mtime > perhaps) with the time of the scan. That could possibly save some time > during the scan.
Just because a directory is unchanged does not mean that all files and subdirectories beneath it are unchanged as well. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
