> this is exactly my problem I believe. I have a 4TB RAID SAN and the > problem directory holds well over a million small files. Even a > directory under that directory, du takes almost 40 minutes to total up 74GB. The directory code in ext2 and ext3 isn't designed for a million files in a single directory. Its a bizzare corner case. If you split the files into subdirectories (eg by a hash) you'll get far saner numbers
