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From: "Morten Welinder" <mwelinder@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Deleting large files
Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 15:49:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <118833cc0805071249w36145eb6g7ed5c18d9fdf6fce@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi there,

deleting large files, say on the order of 4.6GB, takes approximately forever.
Why is that?  Well, it is because a lot of things need to take place to free
the formerly used space, but my real question is "why does the unlink caller
have to wait for it?"

I.e., could unlink do the directory changes and then hand off the rest of the
task to a kernel thread?

Morten

             reply	other threads:[~2008-05-07 19:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-07 19:49 Morten Welinder [this message]
2008-05-07 20:10 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-05-07 20:17   ` Xavier Bestel
2008-05-07 20:48     ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-05-07 22:34 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2008-05-07 23:14   ` Morten Welinder
2008-05-08 23:01     ` Alan Cox
2008-05-11 10:30     ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-05-11 16:38       ` Enrico Weigelt
2008-05-20 14:33     ` Pavel Machek
2008-05-08  8:19 ` Matti Aarnio
2008-05-11 11:16   ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-11 16:42     ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-05-08 17:29 ` Christian Kujau
     [not found]   ` <118833cc0805081110u7aad3921v3a1ec4187acc4ef4@mail.gmail.com>
2008-05-08 18:54     ` Christian Kujau
2008-05-17 12:15 ` Pavel Machek

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