[CentOS] Deleting Large Files
Kay Diederichs
kay.diederichs at uni-konstanz.de
Mon Mar 2 08:34:55 UTC 2009
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
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