I agree with what you say :) El 12/06/2013 04:45 p.m., Stephan von Krawczynski escribi?: > On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 14:55:23 -0300 > Pablo <paa.listas at gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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. > Ok, this is a heavy misinterpretation of my true intention. > I did _not_ intend to delete particularly fast, the sole idea of mv & mkdir > was to come up with the same but empty dir for _users_ as fast as possible. > And only _then_ throw away the old, probably unneeded original content. > So I thought the basic admin idea was to give the user as fast as possible > what he wants (empty dir) and deal with the rest cleanup later on. This were what I were trying to said above. :) Sorry, my english is very limited :( > And that's why I named it an admin question. Do something to make the user > happy, but indeed something completely different than what the user thought > was going on. > And whatever idea you come up, you will not have your dir as > fast empty shown to the user as me with mv&mkdir :-) Yes, that is why i try to combine both. > And btw, this is exactly what I do suggest for delete/undelete implementation: > move the deleted something to a shadow dir where content is expelled based on > its age iff the real world tree needs more space. I agree with this also. Regards, :)
