On Mar 2, 2009, at 7:06 AM, "Joseph L. Casale" <JCasale@activenetwerx.com
wrote:
Have you tried to delete locally, instead of over NFS?
As I said, the deletes are done locally via ssh.
Have you tried the "unlink" command instead of "rm" ?
Nope, but I will now!
If it's not too late you could try XFS as I believe it is efficient in handling large files.
Or you could try a different journal option to your ext3 fs.
Problem is the fragmentation that occurs with these files created over NFS and how ext3 deallocates extents.
-Ross