Re: [PATCH 1/2] fts: introduce the FTS_NOLEAF flag

[Pádraig Brady]

On 18/01/16 16:10, Kamil Dudka wrote:
> On Monday 21 December 2015 15:01:56 Kamil Dudka wrote:
>> On Monday 21 December 2015 00:05:51 Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>> On the other hand we've had no reports of issues with the
>>> existing auto config done by FTS.
>>
>> Because the leaf optimization has been enabled for reiserfs only until now.
>> I suspect that NFS will not be that easy and such file system issues might
>> be difficult to debug without the -noleaf option actually implemented.
> 
> So we have the first bug report about the leaf optimization causing problems 
> to users of find(1):
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1299169
> 
> Is this a reason to implement the -noleaf option of find (and consequently
> the FTS_NOLEAF flag of gnulib's FTS)?

Maybe. But I'm also thinking it might mean we
can't enable this optimization for NFS
as the implementations are too disparate in this regard?

It seems prudent for example to disable this
optimization for the imminent coreutils 8.25 release :(

thanks,
Pádraig