Re: e2fs + large disk == slug?

Michael Meissner (meissner@cygnus.com)
Tue, 16 Jun 1998 15:38:55 -0400

| ML> On my 120mhz HP-UX system this same operation on the same set of files
| ML> with the same model disk drive only takes a few seconds; whereas with
| ML> my 200MHz PPro Linux system it takes five to ten times as long...
|
| Just deleted a 2 Gig file on a Solaris machine. It worked instatntly
| but the disk space was freed in background.
|
| Place for possible improvement.

I would hope Linux never does this optimization. I tend to do things like:

rm -rf <dir>; df

expecting df to be accurate immediately after the delete.

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