At my job we have to open many small files from NFS. The latency of open() absolutely murders sequential performance (>80 seconds just to open a scene descripti

At my job we have to open many small files from NFS. The latency of open() absolutely murders sequential performance (>80 seconds just to open a scene descriptions). Prewawrming the fairly shortlived NFS access caches in parallel evaporates most of the performance penalty.