On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 15:16 +0100, Dominik Schulz wrote: > Filesystems tend to have a very high impact when deleting huge filetrees. I > have rm often run several hours on ext3 when removing big directories. You > should try out XFS if that is faster for you since it has generally a better > performance when deleting than ext3.
I second the recommendation for XFS in this case. Not only is it fast, but it also gets around the inode problem that EXT3 has. I also like how particular XFS is about maintaining data integrity. It's a pain that it forces the FS read-only when it detects problems, but I've had two partial drive failures detected early enough that I was able to avoid data loss and unscheduled downtime thanks to that feature. Speaking of file systems, Anyone know how EXT4 handles inodes? If it is more flexible than EXT3 in that regard and it's performance is actually as good as the initial results seem to indicate, it could be a real game-changer in the Linux FS space. -- Quentin Hartman Senior System Administrator Concentric Sky [email protected] 541.342.8456 _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
