23 Aug
2013
23 Aug
'13
12:48 p.m.
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 12:40:51PM +0200, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
I doubt saving functions calls is going to gain you anything in this case as 99.9% of the time the rm takes is on disk I/O. If you want to reduce the rm time you have to find a way to reduce the disk I/O it requires.
Correct.
If it's a whole directory (tree) that needs removing then I find
mv dir dir.o ; mkdir dir ; chown ##:## dir; chmod ### dir ; rm -r dir.o &
type stuff works just fine; the rm can chunk along in the background while there's now a nice clean empty directory for the application.
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rgds
Stephen