So combining the two approaches I think that this may be a better solution? tempdirname=`mktemp -d` mv <dir> $tempdirname mkdir <dir> # rm -rf <tempdirname> mkdir empty rsync -a --delete empty/ $tempdirname rmdir empty $tempdirname Regards, Pablo. El 12/06/2013 11:48 a.m., Jeff Darcy escribi?: > On 06/12/2013 10:26 AM, Pete Smith wrote: >> Hi >> >> We've got a directory with approx 1 million files. Mac user ... grr >> >> Is there a quick and dirty way to remove them? >> >> I was going with: >> >> ls | xargs rm >> >> but maybe rsync -a --delete empty/ full/ >> >> would be less expensive? >> >> This is on a distributed replicated volume. > > > 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. > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users >
