Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 May 2008 15:49:30 -0400 | From | "Morten Welinder" <> | Subject | Deleting large files |
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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?
Morten
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