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Re: Rm performance issue
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: Rm performance issue |
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Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:50:46 +0200 |
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Philip Rowlands <address@hidden> writes:
> unlink shouldn't cause much I/O compared to other read/write
> operations, so I'm surprised you only noticed issues with rm.
Deleting a big file can require quite a bit of block reading, depending
on the filesystem and the fragmentation thereof.
Andreas.
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