Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Feb 2000 09:55:13 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: very large directories |
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On 29 Feb 2000 nbecker@fred.net wrote:
> A coworker has an application that produces 10's of thousands of small > files. It seems the performance of even a simple operation, such as > 'rm -rf' or find | xargs rm is very very slow.
"Doctor, it hurts me when I do it"...
> What are the mechanisms that limit performance? Is it the type of > data structure used to represent directories?
Mostly it's a format of on-disk representation. IOW, introduce your cow-orker to clue-by-4 - keeping a lot of files in on directory is _BAD_ idea.
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