On 29 Feb 2000 nbecker@fred.net wrote:
> A coworker has an application that produces 10's of thousands of small
> files. It seems the performance of even a simple operation, such as
> 'rm -rf' or find | xargs rm is very very slow.
"Doctor, it hurts me when I do it"...
> What are the mechanisms that limit performance? Is it the type of
> data structure used to represent directories?
Mostly it's a format of on-disk representation. IOW, introduce your
cow-orker to clue-by-4 - keeping a lot of files in on directory is _BAD_
idea.
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