From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Morten Welinder <mwelinder@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Deleting large files
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 14:15:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080517121544.GA3926@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <118833cc0805071249w36145eb6g7ed5c18d9fdf6fce@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed 2008-05-07 15:49:30, Morten Welinder wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> deleting large files, say on the order of 4.6GB, takes approximately forever.
> Why is that? Well, it is because a lot of things need to take place to free
> the formerly used space, but my real question is "why does the unlink caller
> have to wait for it?"
>
> I.e., could unlink do the directory changes and then hand off the rest of the
> task to a kernel thread?
Yep, but implementation is not going to be trivial. Send a patch ;-).
Pavel
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-17 12:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-07 19:49 Deleting large files Morten Welinder
2008-05-07 20:10 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-05-07 20:17 ` Xavier Bestel
2008-05-07 20:48 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-05-07 22:34 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2008-05-07 23:14 ` Morten Welinder
2008-05-08 23:01 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-11 10:30 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-05-11 16:38 ` Enrico Weigelt
2008-05-20 14:33 ` Pavel Machek
2008-05-08 8:19 ` Matti Aarnio
2008-05-11 11:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-11 16:42 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-05-08 17:29 ` Christian Kujau
[not found] ` <118833cc0805081110u7aad3921v3a1ec4187acc4ef4@mail.gmail.com>
2008-05-08 18:54 ` Christian Kujau
2008-05-17 12:15 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
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