hi, developers we use ceph v0.30, kernel client 2.6.37 mount ceph on /mnt $ mkdir /mnt/a $ cd a $ seq 10 | xargs -i mkdir {} $ cd .. $ rm -rf a from the debug log of mds.we find if we want remove one subdirectory in "a", we must execute readdir " a " operation each time so we need read dir "a" 10 times. but in normal way, it should readdir "a" once, and remove all the subdirectories if we use "rm -rf a". we'd like to know how did ceph parse command "rm -rf " ? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html