Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 17 May 2008 14:15:45 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Deleting large files |
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On Wed 2008-05-07 15:49:30, Morten Welinder wrote: > Hi there, > > deleting large files, say on the order of 4.6GB, takes approximately forever. > Why is that? Well, it is because a lot of things need to take place to free > the formerly used space, but my real question is "why does the unlink caller > have to wait for it?" > > I.e., could unlink do the directory changes and then hand off the rest of the > task to a kernel thread?
Yep, but implementation is not going to be trivial. Send a patch ;-).
Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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