Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 14:36:27 -0500 From: "MikeM" <myraq@mgm51.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lots of files in a directory Message-ID: <200301021436270671.0AF47A7E@home.24cl.com> In-Reply-To: <20030102173851.GG24622@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200301020901270548.09C1C68B@sentry.24cl.com> <20030102173851.GG24622@dan.emsphone.com>
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On 1/2/03 at 11:38 AM Dan Nelson wrote: |In the last episode (Jan 02), MikeM said: |> Is there anything I can do so that the file system works faster with |> such a large number of files? I'm looking for an increase in the |> area of 5 to 1. For example, the command "rm -rf misc" where "misc" |> is the directory containing the 250,000 files takes a couple of hours |> to run. If "misc" is my current working directory, and I type "rm *" |> I get the message that there are too many arguments being passed into |> rm. | |In addition to the other suggestions, enabling softupdates will make |file creation and deletion much faster (your rm -rf will speed up |~100x, for example). ============= Thanks. tunefs for enabling softupdates seems to require console access and single user boot mode. So I'll have to schedule that on my distant server. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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