[Gluster-devel] "head -c1" vs. "ls -la"

[Gordan Bobic]

Is there any reason to prefer:

# find /gluster/mountpoint -type f -exec head -c1 '{}' \;

to

# ls -laR /gluster/mountpoint

for initiating a server sync/heal with AFR? As far as I can tell, the 
latter should (and does) do the same job (the -la forces the open of the 
file inode for stat() data rather than just the parent directory inode), 
and it is faster since there is no process spawn overhead for each file 
being synced.

Gordan