Subject: Re: Deleting files
To: None <kpneal@pobox.com>
From: John Franklin <franklin@elfie.org>
List: port-alpha
Date: 03/23/2003 14:13:49
On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 01:18:22PM -0500, kpneal@pobox.com wrote:
> What happens if you do something like "rm -rf /var/news/spool/archive"?
> On my AlphaStation (64MB) doing this would bring down the system and
> then take over an hour to fsck on the way back up. This was with
> about 200,000 to 300,000 files deleted almost at once.

Don't know.  Never tried that.  I have done the stress test directly on
the miniNAS without incident.

We could really use a journaled file system.

jf
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John Franklin
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