On 1/2/03 at 11:38 AM Dan Nelson wrote: |In the last episode (Jan 02), MikeM said: |> Is there anything I can do so that the file system works faster with |> such a large number of files? I'm looking for an increase in the |> area of 5 to 1. For example, the command "rm -rf misc" where "misc" |> is the directory containing the 250,000 files takes a couple of hours |> to run. If "misc" is my current working directory, and I type "rm *" |> I get the message that there are too many arguments being passed into |> rm. | |In addition to the other suggestions, enabling softupdates will make |file creation and deletion much faster (your rm -rf will speed up |~100x, for example). =============
Thanks. tunefs for enabling softupdates seems to require console access and single user boot mode. So I'll have to schedule that on my distant server. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
