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> | Just deleted a 2 Gig file on a Solaris machine. It worked instatntly > | but the disk space was freed in background. > | > | Place for possible improvement. > > I would hope Linux never does this optimization. I tend to do things like: > > rm -rf <dir>; df > > expecting df to be accurate immediately after the delete. Then I suggest you implement it so that df sleeps on its file system query until the asynchronous rm finishes. Thats a big win on rm of big files and no pain - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu | ||||||||||||
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