Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id g24Kq7v25408 for linux-xfs-outgoing; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 12:52:07 -0800 Received: from sgi.com (sgi-too.SGI.COM [204.94.211.39]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id g24Kq1925385 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 12:52:01 -0800 Received: from Cantor.suse.de (ns.suse.de [213.95.15.193]) by sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via ESMTP id LAA00649 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 11:52:02 -0800 (PST) mail_from (ak@suse.de) Received: from Hermes.suse.de (Hermes.suse.de [213.95.15.136]) by Cantor.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67B4F1E5D7; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 20:46:56 +0100 (MET) Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 20:46:56 +0100 From: Andi Kleen To: Steve Lord Cc: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: TAKE - reduce synchronous transaction use in xfs Message-ID: <20020304204656.A29810@wotan.suse.de> References: <200202152055.g1FKt4x10539@jen.americas.sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200202152055.g1FKt4x10539@jen.americas.sgi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i Sender: owner-linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 02:55:04PM -0600, Steve Lord wrote: > This was long thought to be the sole cause of slower delete speed in > XFS, this turns out not to be the case, it does help delete speed, but > if you go and delete 30000 files in one go it will not make a large > difference for you. That issue is the next thing being tackled. > [just noticing some big slow rm -rfs on a xfs disk] Could you expand a bit on that issue? I would like to understand it. Thanks, -Andi