--On Tuesday, November 05, 2002 11:30:23 -0600 "Douglas E. Engert" <deengert@anl.gov> wrote: > In the case where the -type d is used, we are still looking at all > directories, and the mount point appears as a directory Right. I forgot this part. if the rest of the find command requires that all files encountered be stat'ed anyway, the optimization isn't done.