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    SubjectRe: unlink aggressively robs resources
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    Dean Gaudet <dgaudet-list-linux-kernel@arctic.org> writes:

    |> I've noticed this with 2.1.84, .86, and .103 kernels. When you unlink
    |> large files on an ext2 disk, the machine becomes extremely choppy.

    Unlinking large files is expensive because it needs to read in every
    indirection block to find out which blocks to release.

    --
    Andreas Schwab "And now for something
    schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de completely different"
    schwab@gnu.org

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