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 :) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Emmanuel Florac | Direction technique | Intellique | <eflorac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> | +33 1 78 94 84 02 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs