From: Emmanuel Florac <eflorac@intellique.com>
To: Andrei Deftu <andreideftu@gmail.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Slow delete
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 17:13:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100705171338.3bb38e1d@harpe.intellique.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinPmhJRD3CDdsHtkLFzYd2jF9ee7gPqgO6XBSfl@mail.gmail.com>
Le Mon, 5 Jul 2010 17:27:44 +0300
Andrei Deftu <andreideftu@gmail.com> écrivait:
> As many people have pointed out, xfs is very slow when deleting a
> large number of files. Does anyone has a technical answer to this
> problem? Also, I am interested to know if there is a way to
> temporarily speed up the delete process, regardless of all the other
> parameters.
Using the "nobarrier" mount option (when applicable/advisable)
considerably speeds up metadata operations.
Another possibility is to use a ramdisk (or /dev/null) as a log device
though it could be... dangerous :)
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2010-07-05 15:13 ` Emmanuel Florac [this message]
2010-07-05 15:33 ` Slow delete Andrei Deftu
2010-07-05 18:21 ` Peter Grandi
2010-07-05 18:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-05 23:34 ` Dave Chinner
2010-07-12 12:17 ` Michael Monnerie
2010-07-19 18:54 ` Alex Elder
2010-07-20 11:04 ` Michael Monnerie
2010-07-20 17:09 ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-07-20 23:18 ` Dave Chinner
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