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authorhttps://me.yahoo.com/a/g3Ccalpj0NhN566pHbUl6i9QF0QEkrhlfPM-#b1c14 <diana@web>2015-02-16 20:08:03 +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