Re: Long `rm` times.

Mark Lord (mlord@pobox.com)
Sun, 23 May 1999 10:27:45 -0400

"Nicholas J. Leon" wrote:
..
> Try rebooting and then deleting the file. I did so and it took around
> 30seconds to delete a 1GB file..... if I delete it IMMEDIATELY after
> creating it (including "sync") it takes (as youve shown) around 5 seconds or
> so.

Is the "file" in the root directory?

Maybe this delay is just ext2 running around updating
all of the superblock backups or something (WAG) ???

-- 
mlord@pobox.com


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