On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 10:48:33 -0400 Jeff Darcy <jdarcy at redhat.com> wrote: > http://linuxnote.net/jianingy/en/linux/a-fast-way-to-remove-huge-number-of-files.html > > tl;dr The rsync method is likely to be faster because of readdir batching. In > fact, the results from that article are likely to be even more applicable to > any distributed filesystem where readdir is even more expensive. This > difference is completely orthogonal to the difference between deleting files > through a client mountpoint or directly on the brick, with or without renaming > first. That's a funny paper :-) Maybe some GNUs should have read it when implementing "rm" ;-) -- Regards, Stephan
