Re: Benchmark

[Federico Sevilla III <jijo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10 May 2001 at 17:26, Florin Andrei wrote:
> I saw that XFS is slow when erasing huge file trees (for ex.: when
> emptying a Squid cache :-) ). Why is it so? I'm not saying it's a bug,
> i'm just asking why...

I'm not an expert on XFS, but I do recall someone on the list posting a
message recently saying that it had something to do with the fact that XFS
does synchronous file deletions, hence the speed issue.

 --> Jijo

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