Areca Raid 6 ARC-1231 Raid 6 Slow LS Listing Performance on large directory

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> At 04:04 PM 6/11/2008, Paul wrote:
> >Changing from compat to files fixes the problem.
> >
> >It is now superfast when running ls -lh.
>
> Hi,
>          Not sure, but a more "proper" fix might be to look at the
> nscd caching daemon. Take a look at nscd and nscd.conf. I havent used
> it myself, but I seem to recall others suggesting this as a "fix" as
> well.

Why is 'compat' so slow? (ie what's the difference between it and file 
anyway)

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