Re: Linux 2.6.29
From: Mark Lord
Date: Sat Apr 04 2009 - 23:46:41 EST
David Newall wrote:
Andrew Morton wrote:
- open the file
- unlink the file
- now sit in a loop, slowly nibbling away at the tail with
ftruncate() until the file is gone.
Why not fork and unlink in the child?
..
I think it does the equivalent of that today.
Problem is, if you do the unlink without the nibbling,
then the disk locks up the system cold for 2-3 minutes
until the disk delete actually completes.
-ml
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