Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>> Uh huh.  Takes about 2 hours on the machine I have at work to delete two
>> months of audio chopped into 20-second chunks. :-)
> 
> Huh?? You're clearly using the wrong filesystem!

I said that, yes.

"""
I think on Linux it was just a combination of me picking a file system 
not really optimized for bunches of little files, combined with a 
journaling mode that's designed for utter safety rather than efficiency, 
combined with a software RAID. I probably could have improved it a bunch 
if I had an incentive to learn my options before installing things.
"""

You understand I'm talking about quarter million 1.7-meg files, yes? 
That's 2000+ deletes a minute (36/second) on an IDE drive with RAID 
going on.

Yes, I'm using the wrong file system, but it's not *too* shabby.

-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)

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