Excerpts from krz...@gmail.com's message of 2011-08-13 17:59:34 -0400: > I wonder if it would be possible to implement instant unlinking > directory with files in it. Since btrfs is based on b trees it could > be possible. Filesystem would have to "loose" all information on > directory and object in it, and allow overwriting this information. > This would be great feature, because everyone knows that recursive > deleting large directories, with milions of files require huge io > traffic.
I'm afraid the huge IO traffic is required in order to find the files in the directory and free all the blocks reference by those files. -chris -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
