Benny Halevy wrote: At any rate, the broader issue is that the posix system call API assumes a local file system and is not network not cluster file-system aware. It would be interesting to see someone who is affected by this implement the readdirplus system call, modify ls to use it, and report the results. I suspect the system call won't go anywhere in linux without some evidence that it solves a real problem for real users. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html