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authorSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>2015-02-18 00:58:35 +0100
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+From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org>
+Subject: rm -fr slowness
+
+I have always been surprised by the slowness of a mere rm -fr. Looking a
+bit inside, I see that diskfs_dirremove_hard() calls diskfs_file_update
+(dp, 1) (as does diskfs_truncate, diskfs_direnter_hard, and
+diskfs_dirrewrite_hard). diskfs_file_update then calls pager_sync on
+the pager, which thus writes back the whole ext2fs pager!
+
+This sounds a bit excessive to me, an unlink could just record it in
+memory and actually sync later. Also, the wait flag is set, so we
+really waits for all I/Os, which basically means strictly serializing
+file removals: remove one file, wait for the disk to have done it
+(~10ms), remove the next one, etc. I guess this is for safety reasons
+against crashes, but isn't the sync option there for such kind of
+
+
+# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-07-23
+
+ <antrik> youpi: hm... async deletion does have one downside: I just removed
+ something to make space, and retried the other command immediately
+ afterwards, and it still said "no space left on device"... a few seconds
+ later (after the next regular sync I suppose?) it worked
+ <youpi> well, that's sorta expected, yes
+ <youpi> we get the same on Linux
+ <youpi> Mmm, on second thought, I'm not sure how that can happen
+ <youpi> the asynchronous thing is for disk writes, not cache writes