Subject: Re: Deleting files
To: Michael Kukat <michael@bsdfans.org>
From: Johnny Billquist <bqt@update.uu.se>
List: port-alpha
Date: 03/17/2003 17:51:29
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Michael Kukat wrote:

> Hi !
> 
> On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Christian von Kleist wrote:
> >      Why do deletion operations take so long?  Doing
> 
> Are you using softdep or are you using "classic sync mounted" filesystems?
> async mounting is not really good, but softdeps improves performance
> drastically for such operations.

It should improve things, but deleting files is more than just modifying
the inode.

If softdep could only become stable enough for me to use on my
VAXen... :-)

	Johnny

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