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<p class="MsoNormal">I read on Lustre best practices that ls –U should be used instead of ls –l . I understand that ls –l makes MDS contact all OSS to get all information about all files and hence loads it. But, what does ls –U do to avoid it?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Also, it is said that rm-rf * should not be used. Please can someone explain the reason for that.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It is also said that instead lfs find <directory path> --type f -print0 | xargs -0 rm –f should be used. Please explain the reason for this also.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks and Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Prakrati<o:p></o:p></p>
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