diff --git a/taskflow/examples/dump_memory_backend.py b/taskflow/examples/dump_memory_backend.py
index 7209dda0..2e3aee71 100644
--- a/taskflow/examples/dump_memory_backend.py
+++ b/taskflow/examples/dump_memory_backend.py
@@ -70,14 +70,9 @@ e.run()
 print("---------")
 print("After run")
 print("---------")
-entries = [os.path.join(backend.memory.root_path, child)
-           for child in backend.memory.ls(backend.memory.root_path)]
-while entries:
-    path = entries.pop()
+for path in backend.memory.ls(backend.memory.root_path, recursive=True):
     value = backend.memory[path]
     if value:
         print("%s -> %s" % (path, value))
     else:
         print("%s" % (path))
-    entries.extend(os.path.join(path, child)
-                   for child in backend.memory.ls(path))
diff --git a/taskflow/persistence/backends/impl_memory.py b/taskflow/persistence/backends/impl_memory.py
index 7efe6ec0..778eb97a 100644
--- a/taskflow/persistence/backends/impl_memory.py
+++ b/taskflow/persistence/backends/impl_memory.py
@@ -110,9 +110,25 @@ class FakeFilesystem(object):
         else:
             return self._copier(node.metadata['value'])
 
-    def ls(self, path):
+    def ls(self, path, recursive=False):
         """Return list of all children of the given path."""
-        return [node.item for node in self._fetch_node(path)]
+        if not recursive:
+            return [node.item for node in self._fetch_node(path)]
+        else:
+            paths = []
+            node = self._fetch_node(path)
+            for child in node.bfs_iter():
+                # Reconstruct the child's path...
+                hops = [child.item]
+                for parent in child.path_iter(include_self=False):
+                    hops.append(parent.item)
+                hops.reverse()
+                # This avoids getting '//a/b' (duplicated sep at start)...
+                child_path = pp.sep.join(hops)
+                if child_path.startswith("//"):
+                    child_path = child_path[1:]
+                paths.append(child_path)
+            return paths
 
     def _iter_pieces(self, path, include_root=False):
         if path == self._root.item:
diff --git a/taskflow/tests/unit/persistence/test_memory_persistence.py b/taskflow/tests/unit/persistence/test_memory_persistence.py
index 1c9f451b..069e88de 100644
--- a/taskflow/tests/unit/persistence/test_memory_persistence.py
+++ b/taskflow/tests/unit/persistence/test_memory_persistence.py
@@ -71,6 +71,35 @@ class MemoryFilesystemTest(test.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual('c', fs['/c'])
         self.assertEqual('db', fs['/d/b'])
 
+    def test_ls_recursive(self):
+        fs = impl_memory.FakeFilesystem()
+        fs.ensure_path("/d")
+        fs.ensure_path("/c/d")
+        fs.ensure_path("/b/c/d")
+        fs.ensure_path("/a/b/c/d")
+        contents = fs.ls("/", recursive=True)
+        self.assertEqual([
+            '/a',
+            '/b',
+            '/c',
+            '/d',
+            '/a/b',
+            '/b/c',
+            '/c/d',
+            '/a/b/c',
+            '/b/c/d',
+            '/a/b/c/d',
+        ], contents)
+
+    def test_ls_recursive_targeted(self):
+        fs = impl_memory.FakeFilesystem()
+        fs.ensure_path("/d")
+        fs.ensure_path("/c/d")
+        fs.ensure_path("/b/c/d")
+        fs.ensure_path("/a/b/c/d")
+        contents = fs.ls("/a/b", recursive=True)
+        self.assertEqual(['/a/b/c', '/a/b/c/d'], contents)
+
     def test_ensure_path(self):
         fs = impl_memory.FakeFilesystem()
         pieces = ['a', 'b', 'c']