Re: 10minutes for rm -rf on 400MB

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>]

Federico Sevilla III wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 9 Sep 2001 at 13:17, Dirk Wetter wrote:
> > a user complained that /rm -rf of 400MB / takes ~10 minutes (!) until
> > the command returns, whereas on the systems with reiserfs we have e.g.
> > it takes seconds.
> 
> This is expected. XFS does deletes synchronously. 

Still, 10 minutes is too long, I think.  Since you're just guessing
about the number of files, though, it's hard to say.  If you can find
out more about the data, that might offer some hints.

-Eric

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