[OpenAFS] Linux client and find command in AFS

[Esther Filderman]

You are right, directories are odd, files are even.

The original Andrew folk wrote a tool called "ws" which is an
AFS-aware find that takes advantage of the inode numbering.  You can
find sources and "help pages" in /afs/psc.edu/usr/ecf/src/ws.

On Apr 7, 2005 9:48 AM, Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu> wrote:
> A bit off the subject, but the way to really speed up "find" is to store a
> flag in the directory that says whether each leaf is a file or directory.
> That way you avoid stat on regular files if there are no other predicates
> that require it.
> 
> This can be done in afs by cheating, because the viceid is always even for
> files and odd for directories (or maybe it's the other way around).
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