Jack Schwartz wrote:
> Hi Jean.
>> Karen,
>>
>> is shutil.rmtree() a lot faster than an rm -rf? Just curious for
>> future reference.
> rmtree() will be more streamlined. os.system("rm -rf *") will have to
> create a shell then execute the rm command from within, whereas
> shutil.rmtree() may just execute system calls directly from C code.
> It's a leaner, meaner deleting machiner. :)
>
> Also, I can probably get rid of my special . and .. processing,
> condensing several lines of python code down to one. This improves
> readability and makes for better code.
>
> I forgot about shutil.rmtree in my implementation, so I'm planning on
> changing my code to use it.
>
> Thanks,
> Jack
>>
>
I'm thinking about using it for the cleanup of the pkg_image area. We
can do zfs rollback to empty for zfs but need something else if you
don't have a zfs dir.
Jean
