Oh wait, this is a SAN. I assume then that the ls is over the network and not done on a Solaris box? If that is the case, then it is very much some sort of non-

Oh wait, this is a SAN. I assume then that the ls is over the network and not done on a Solaris box? If that is the case, then it is very much some sort of non-typical problem. I guess there are also other factors here. Were the SATA drives connected via a network as well? Does the SAN run NFS or something else? At any rate, it certainly doesn't take minutes to list 6000 files. My example above was actually on 4 million files. Extrapolating from 6000 to 4 million, my listing should have taken 11 hours. It may have with the default utilities, but it took no where near that long when I replaced the utilities with GNU versions. For reference, this was directly on the Solaris machine which had the ZFS pool attached via SATA.