unlink performance
Nigel Metheringham
nigel.metheringham at dev.intechnology.co.uk
Wed Aug 15 08:13:27 UTC 2007
On 14 Aug 2007, at 19:08, Ryan Dooley wrote:
> Pre-loading the file system cache (a la "find /path/to/temp -type f
> -print >/dev/null") followed by an "rm -rf /path/to/temp" seems to
> be pretty speedy to me.
Do you mean that:-
find /path/to/temp -type f -print >/dev/null
rm -rf /path/to/temp
is faster than just
rm -rf /path/to/temp
or do you mean that you have arranged to do the find before the point
where you want to delete? If the former, that surprises me somewhat.
Nigel.
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