HP StorageWorks Scalable File Share - Manual (Page 342)

Performance figures B–14
the HP StorageWorks Scalable File Share Client Installation and User Guide (specifically, the section
titled Using Lustre file systems — performance hints) for information on how to optimize performance
of the
rm
command for large numbers of files.
•
stat()
operations are impacted by the ability of the client node and the server to cache file
attributes after the file data has already been accessed. As a result, the rate of these operations
declines as the directory population increases.