> Can't they just directly access inodes for high speed counting? Don't know what you mean by that exactly. But, I'd be stunned if find is actually reading the

> Can't they just directly access inodes for high speed counting? Don't know what you mean by that exactly. But, I'd be stunned if find is actually reading the actual files rather than just reading the directory entries in directory "files". Which is what I'd call accessing inodes "directly"