>On 04/17/09 21:19, Kyle McDonald wrote:
>
>> One reason is that you're not timing how long it takes for the destroy's
>> to complete. You're only timing how long it takes to start all the jobs
>> in the background.
>
>Right, I'm sorry, my example was an oversimplification of a script I made.
>That script included a wait after the for-loop. The same example again:
>
> # date ; for i in `zfs list | awk '/blub2\\// {print $1}'` ; \
> do ( zfs destroy $i & ) ; done ; wait ; date
That still doesn't wait for zfs destroy. Zfs destroy is run in a
sub-shell "()" and you wait for that sub-shell but not for its children.
Casper
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