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Re: About removing files

To: yoros@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: About removing files
From: Michael Sinz <msinz@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 13:25:52 -0400
Cc: linux-xfs <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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yoros@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I never said that XFS is slower than other FS ;). I just said that it
spent a lot of time to delete three files. Now I know a bit more about
the utilities (xfs_bmap & xfs_fsr) and take more care with files by
looking their extents.

Sorry if I am a little heavy...

When a file is downoaded from internet it is written to disk in small
blocks, may it be a problem?

It depends on the speed of the download and the way in which the software does the file writes. XFS does some pre-allocation of disk space when you first open the file and as you write to it. This space is released as things get closed. I am not that sure of how this works anymore (my brain FIFO has looped a few times too many)

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