Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: e2fs + large disk == slug? | Date | Tue, 16 Jun 1998 23:06:49 +0100 (BST) |
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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
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