Dear All, I believe there is no answer to optimized "lfs find" but still trying to see if I can learn more if there is. Q1) I have been trying to scan 39 OST's using lfs find and this is taking forever? Are there any tips or tricks to speed this up. Scans are taking anywhere between 15-24 hours per OST's to finish if all goes well without interruption. I am parallelizing my scan's from multiple clients to speed this up but don't know of any alternate ways. Q2) On the other hand when I start "lfs find" on each of the 39 OST's I have doomed my MDS server with kernel panic due to out of memory issue. Any tips on how can I minimize this load and avoid MDS from running out of memory? Q3) Situation: When a client dies for any reason or if the "lfs find" command that it is running times out, with Input/Out error "or" transport shutdown(Never saw this until I started running multiple lfs find and simultaneously running lfs_migrate for the files that were identified to be moved out of OST's) Observation: I believe the MDS continues to run and serve the scan request for "lfs find on a thread until it fails or notices that it has evicted the client, hence taking up the resources on MDS. I don't know if this makes sense but I am guessing this is causing my MDS to be loaded with RPC requests and causing further slowdown. Any tunable options here? I wish there was some kind of indexing we could do to avoid deep scans. Best Regards, Amit