Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 12 Jul 1997 23:16:21 -0400 | From | "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <> | Subject | Re: PATCH to pre-patch-2.1.45: clean_inode needs to reset i_writecount |
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Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 01:52:34 +0200 From: Rob van Nieuwkerk <robn@verdi.et.tudelft.nl>
> Wake up, people.. Getting rid of dtime + the "n_link = 0" information > would not make the filesystem any less secure, but it _would_ make it > faster.
I guess this is the reason that expiring news (basically deleting lots of files) is very slow on Linux/ext2fs ?
I actually very much doubt that the inode update is what is causing expire to be slow. It may be part of the reason, but I suspect it's only a very tiny part. See my previous post about why the inode update probably isn't slowing down rm -rf.
- Ted
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