Re: [rfc] Near-constant time directory index for Ext2

[Jonathan Morton <chromi@cyberspace.org>]

>Perhaps rm -rf . would be faster?  Let rm do glob expansion,
>without the sort.  Care to recreate those 65535 files and try it?

Perhaps, but I think that form is still fairly slow.  It takes an
"uncomfortable" amount of time to remove a complex directory structure
using, eg. "rm -rf /usr/src/linux-obsolete" or "rm -rf
downloads/XFree86-old-and-buggy".  I'm not sure, but I would guess it's not
as much quicker than removing each file individually as you might think.

If I had more time on my hands, I'd run some quick benchmarks on some of my
systems.

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