Re: Slow delete

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Le Mon, 5 Jul 2010 17:27:44 +0300
Andrei Deftu <andreideftu@xxxxxxxxx> écrivait:

> As many people have pointed out, xfs is very slow when deleting a
> large number of files. Does anyone has a technical answer to this
> problem? Also, I am interested to know if there is a way to
> temporarily speed up the delete process, regardless of all the other
> parameters.

Using the "nobarrier" mount option (when applicable/advisable)
considerably speeds up metadata operations.
Another possibility is to use a ramdisk (or /dev/null) as a log device
though it could be... dangerous :)

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