Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Feb 2001 22:58:36 +0000 | From | Jonathan Morton <> | Subject | Re: [rfc] Near-constant time directory index for Ext2 |
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>Perhaps rm -rf . would be faster? Let rm do glob expansion, >without the sort. Care to recreate those 65535 files and try it?
Perhaps, but I think that form is still fairly slow. It takes an "uncomfortable" amount of time to remove a complex directory structure using, eg. "rm -rf /usr/src/linux-obsolete" or "rm -rf downloads/XFree86-old-and-buggy". I'm not sure, but I would guess it's not as much quicker than removing each file individually as you might think.
If I had more time on my hands, I'd run some quick benchmarks on some of my systems.
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