>> I tested the same thing on an xfs fs and the interesting thing was that <snip> >> It took me a whole lotta time to delete that stuff. ;-) >> Maybe under xfs directories just are limited by inodes and nothing else. > > COuld u tell me why did u take some much time to delete stuff ?? This is a known performance problem of XFS. > > if u know command for and rm and ls u can do it exactly the same what > did u do with mkdir command. > for i in ls; do rm -rf $i;done > thats it. no big deal to remove that files. :) XFS is slow on large deletes. That is just it.