...while the call count was high, the time taken by the calls in total was not significant(<1% if I remember correctly). Yes, on ordinary filesystems if you ru

...while the call count was high, the time taken by the calls in total was not significant(<1% if I remember correctly). Yes, on ordinary filesystems if you run stat() over and over again on the same file then it's just copying from the in-memory inode into your struct stat, there's no IO.