On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 07:45:47PM +0100, Brian Marsden wrote: > Another interesting behaviour is the delay required to stat the > filesystems for the first time after they are mounted - e.g. running df > -l can take up to 5 seconds per gfs filesystem. This part is normal. GFS tries to speed up df operations by caching data in the lock LVBs. The first df after mount is what builds this cache by reading all the information off of disk. So, that one will always be slow. -- Ken Preslan <kpreslan@xxxxxxxxxx>