Eero Ahonen wrote:
> Well ok, after that you wrote about chopping the file, which practically 
> is what split does, but it should be able to work without creating 
> millions of (temp)files in the middle of the process.

The problem is the size of the file. If I split it after the fact, I now 
have *two* files, the original and the new one. So now instead of half 
an hour of deleting directory entries, I have three hours of copying 
data, followed by five minutes of deleting one directory entry.

Split doesn't split a file. It writes new files, each of which contain 
pieces of the previous file.

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