Philip Rowlands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > unlink shouldn't cause much I/O compared to other read/write > operations, so I'm surprised you only noticed issues with rm.
Deleting a big file can require quite a bit of block reading, depending on the filesystem and the fragmentation thereof. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
