So combining the two approaches I think that this may be a better solution?
tempdirname=`mktemp -d`
mv <dir> $tempdirname
mkdir <dir>
# rm -rf <tempdirname>
mkdir empty
rsync -a --delete empty/ $tempdirname
rmdir empty $tempdirname
Regards,
Pablo.
El 12/06/2013 11:48 a.m., Jeff Darcy escribió:
On 06/12/2013 10:26 AM, Pete Smith wrote:
Hi
We've got a directory with approx 1 million files. Mac user ... grr
Is there a quick and dirty way to remove them?
I was going with:
ls | xargs rm
but maybe rsync -a --delete empty/ full/
would be less expensive?
This is on a distributed replicated volume.
http://linuxnote.net/jianingy/en/linux/a-fast-way-to-remove-huge-number-of-files.html
tl;dr The rsync method is likely to be faster because of readdir
batching. In fact, the results from that article are likely to be
even more applicable to any distributed filesystem where readdir is
even more expensive. This difference is completely orthogonal to the
difference between deleting files through a client mountpoint or
directly on the brick, with or without renaming first.
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