Re: About removing files

[Michael Sinz <msinz@xxxxxxxxx>]

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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