On May 1, 2010, at 1:35 AM, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: > On Apr 30, 2010, at 14:32 , Richard Brittain wrote: >> This solves my immediate need, and I'll probably use your mount point >> database too, but begs the question of why perl's >> File::Find module works fine, while 'find' breaks. Underneath they are >> presumably making very similar system calls. > > . . . . File::Find has gone through a lot of development aimed at reducing > its impact on the system, whereas in my experience the GNU folks tend to > prefer the throw-more-resources-at-it method.
The findutils developers seem to be an exception to this. In my correspondence with them they were pretty firm about not adding overhead. Their goal was that any features added that were specific to afs, cifs, etc should not add overhead to systems that did not have that filesystem type. I can't speak to how well they succeeded, but that was their goal. Steve_______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
