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Re: xfs and delete of small files



On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 07:02:44AM +0100, Sipos Ferenc wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> When will the slow delete problem be fixed in xfs? Yesterday, I deleted
> 16000 emails in evolution, and it took more than 20 minutes. It's not a
> slow machine, (athlon 500 with 256 megs of ram), so it's clearly the
> problem of xfs. Thx.

XFS really isn't the best-suited when it comes to lots of small files.
ReiserFS is known for extremely high performance in situations like this.
XFS, OTOH, excels with huge files.

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-- Skylar Thompson (skylar@attglobal.net)

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