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
> trie
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.
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On Sat, 14 Mar 2009 20:34:39 +0100 (CET)
Wojciech Puchar 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?
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In friendship,
prad
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.
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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 eve
On Sat, 14 Mar 2009 11:02:48 -0400
Lowell Gilbert 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 prompt much faster than i do with say
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prad 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 wait.
>
> i presu
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 poi
