Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 May 2008 22:48:42 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: Deleting large files |
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On Wednesday 2008-05-07 22:17, Xavier Bestel wrote: >Le mercredi 07 mai 2008 à 22:10 +0200, Jan Engelhardt a écrit : >> >> >I.e., could unlink do the directory changes and then hand off the rest of the >> >task to a kernel thread? >> >> Say you had one realtime application running that would do lots of new >> writes after the unlink finished. When the unlink is put into the >> background, you interleave the unlink operation with new writes, >> probably causing needless seeks and therefore not hitting the deadlines >> anymore. > >Why ? The writes are delayed, so could be the unlink operations.
Code complexity. But then again, a few good filesystems don't even need to do such heavy housekeeping, and I suggest using these if you are worried about unlink speed. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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