Re: [CentOS] Deleting Large Files

Joseph L. Casale schrieb:

I have an issue with a busy CentOS server exporting iSCSI and NFS/SMB shares. Some of the files are very large, and when they get deleted IO climbs to an unacceptable rate. Is there a way to purge a file with little to no IO overhead on ext3?

Thanks! jlc

Have you tried to delete locally, instead of over NFS?

Maybe by deleting over SMB from a Windows machine, the file is not deleted but rather moved to a "Trash" folder on a different disk (which would explain the I/O)? (Same could happen with a Unix desktop, like KDE)

Have you tried the "unlink" command instead of "rm" ?

Kay