From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: Very very slow rm/unlink of large sparse files
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 07:22:46 -0800
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To: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
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Chris Mason wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 08:32, Dieter N=FCtzel wrote:
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> =20
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>>>Is there a way to avoid practically (but not completely) locking up a
>>>filesystem for many hours or days just to delete a file?
>>>     =20
>>>
>
>Yes, reiserfs needs to be nicer with the BKL.  This I can fix
>easily...patching.
>
>-chris
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>
>
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> =20
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Just a reminder, reiser4 fixes the V3 performance problems with holes.