Le 18-Oct-2001, Greg Ward écrivait : >> just performance wise i think an unlink to a new >> directory everytime a file is deleted will slow the fs down > > I would have thought intra-filesystem moves were pretty fast, but again > I know nothing about FS internals.
Yes, moving files to a "trashbin folder" should be very fast (even faster than a real unlink ?), and even if you pay the price of the real unlink later (when flushing the trashbin folder), it should be ok for "desktop usage"... reiserfs is really fast at unlinking files ;) The only problem I can see, performance-wise, is that fragmentation should increase a bit faster, because "virtually free" space (free space + files in trashbin) is not coalesced like "really free" space is; Just like when a filesystem is almost full, it makes the allocator's job harder... Time for some fragmentation benchmark ? -- Linux blade.concept-micro.com 2.4.13-pre3 #1 mar oct 16 10:56:42 MEST 2001 i686 unknown 17:21:56 up 3 days, 4:14, 7 users, load average: 2.35, 2.59, 2.61
