<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Josh Smith from the Ubuntu mail list responded: "Find doesn't cache per se but the file system does." <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/15/2012 6:27 PM, John Hupp wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:505500BC.2010702@prpcompany.com" type="cite"> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> I'm curious about this observation: If I do a find search on the root directory, it ordinarily takes a minute or two -- as one would expect if it were examining everything afresh. But if I follow that up with a different find search on the root, it finishes in a few seconds. Does find cache file system information and reuse it under certain conditions? Or does Linux itself cache some sort of information from an initial search that a subsequent search benefits from? <fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> </blockquote> </body> </html>