There really is no ideal solution here. The reason is that there is a conflict between people wanting a full listing and wanting it produced in a reasonable amount of time. Hence, the xrdfs command does a parallel search. Of course, you can do this manual in a script by grabing the output of the xrdfs locate command and then cycling through each redirector one at a time. Even that is not ideal because any redirector may actually be talking to other redirectors, so it becomes less than easy to control listings. Now all of that said, I am skeptical (and always was) of doing an "ls" on a worldwide distributed directory structure relative to its usability, usefulness, correctness, and scalability. I'd say it work on a local level but makes little sense on a global level. -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/xrootd/xrootd/issues/462#issuecomment-279570234 ######################################################################## Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list To unsubscribe from the XROOTD-DEV list, click the following link: https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=XROOTD-DEV&A=1