>On Tue, January 5, 2010 05:34, Mikko Lammi wrote: > >> As a result of one badly designed application running loose for some time, >> we now seem to have over 60 million files in one directory. Good thing >> about ZFS is that it allows it without any issues. Unfortunatelly now that >> we need to get rid of them (because they eat 80% of disk space) it seems >> to be quite challenging. > >How about creating a new data set, moving the directory into it, and then >destroying it? > >Assuming the directory in question is /opt/MYapp/data: > 1. zfs create rpool/junk > 2. mv /opt/MYapp/data /rpool/junk/ > 3. zfs destroy rpool/junk
The "move" will create and remove the files; the "remove" by mv will be as inefficient removing them one by one. "rm -rf" would be at least as quick. Casper _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
