Re: the pause that removes

2009-03-16 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:37:13PM -0700, prad wrote: one of the neat things i've found about freebsd vs linux is the 'instantaneous' rm. when you remove a large file or a substantial directory, freebsd does it right away ard you get your prompt back, while with every linux i've tried, you

Re: the pause that removes

2009-03-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
prad p...@towardsfreedom.com writes: one of the neat things i've found about freebsd vs linux is the 'instantaneous' rm. when you remove a large file or a substantial directory, freebsd does it right away ard you get your prompt back, while with every linux i've tried, you wait and wait and

Re: the pause that removes

2009-03-14 Thread prad
On Sat, 14 Mar 2009 11:02:48 -0400 Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: I've never noticed that large directory trees were instantaneous to remove on any filesystem. that's true too. even fbsd isn't really quick on large trees, but on large files, i get to use my

Re: the pause that removes

2009-03-14 Thread andrew clarke
On Thu 2009-03-12 22:37:13 UTC-0700, prad (p...@towardsfreedom.com) wrote: one of the neat things i've found about freebsd vs linux is the 'instantaneous' rm. when you remove a large file or a substantial directory, freebsd does it right away ard you get your prompt back, while with every

Re: the pause that removes

2009-03-14 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I've been under the impression that this (fast deletes) had something indeed. FreeBSD actually postpones free space bitmap update. after deleting many gigs of files you'll see disk working after a while. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: the pause that removes

2009-03-14 Thread prad
On Sat, 14 Mar 2009 20:34:39 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: indeed. FreeBSD actually postpones free space bitmap update. after deleting many gigs of files you'll see disk working after a while. excellent! so is this a freebsd thing or a ufs filesystem thing?

Re: the pause that removes

2009-03-14 Thread Wojciech Puchar
indeed. FreeBSD actually postpones free space bitmap update. after deleting many gigs of files you'll see disk working after a while. excellent! so is this a freebsd thing or a ufs filesystem thing? for sure FreeBSD implementation of UFS ;) i'm not sure how about UFS on other OS.

the pause that removes

2009-03-12 Thread prad
one of the neat things i've found about freebsd vs linux is the 'instantaneous' rm. when you remove a large file or a substantial directory, freebsd does it right away ard you get your prompt back, while with every linux i've tried, you wait and wait and wait. i presume freebsd just takes the