Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1999-20,: Re: Deletion of big files...

# Re: Deletion of big files...

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Wed, 19 May 1999 10:42:00 -0400 (EDT)

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On Tue, 18 May 1999, Rogier Wolff wrote:

> Guys, this is all convoluted ways of fighting symptoms. The cause of
> "rm taking a long time" is that the indirect blocks are scattered all
> over the disk.

Nope. It is $DEITY-awful amount of waiting/retries/schedule() calls in
ext2_truncate(). Look and you'll see. That, and zeroing indirect blocks
(unnecessary for this usage of ext2_truncate()).

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