On 6/9/05, Dipti Pawar <dipti.pawar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > After firing the rm filename command is the file deleted immediately by > kernel or does it lists such files and then delete them from system after > a some specific interval? Firstly, files get deleted only after the number of hardlinks reaches zero and they are closed by all processes. Secondly, this is going to be very filesystem specific, I am currently writing a filesystem that batches all write operations until there is a lot of them so the interval you ask about can be quite large. However, syncing the filesystem should make sure all changes get propagated to disk. HTH Martin Jambor -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
