> [ Hmmmm - I just had a great idea - removing entire directory > contents via punching blocks. No more "remove one dirent at a time" > for rm -rf, just punch the directory from start to end and there > goes millions of directory entries in a single syscall and a handful > of transactions. FALLOC_FL_DIR_PUNCH, anyone? ] Hi Dave. I think that it is a great idea also. BTW, FALLOC_FL_DIR_PUNCH should remove sub-directories using recursive function. If depth is very deep, Is it possible to make stack overflow issue ? Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
