Re: making GNU ls -i (--inode) work around the linux readdir bug

[Phillip Susi]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> When I say "not affected" I mean it.
> Turning off the readdir optimization affects ls -i only
> when it reads directory entries.

You mean you are only disabling the optimization and calling stat() 
anyway for directory entries, and not normal files?  Then the effect is 
only reduced, not eliminated, but probably reduced enough to not be a 
big deal since most directories do not contain many subdirectories and 
little to no files.