Chuck Lever wrote: > So is this a "ls -l"? Because for "ls" it shouldn't stat all the files. Default these days is ls --color No it's not, at least not on linux. From the man page: "Using color to distinguish file types is disabled both by default and with --color=never." -- 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