OK - This got voted -- when I answered those complaints in the first place, and got voted even more -- when I tried to delete it. I was right in the first place anyhow.

The questioner asked whether using the unlink command repeadly from a perl script would damage the hard drive on the web server. The answer is "no". There was nothing in the question about arcane technical details of the file system. I left that stuff out on purpose, not by accident. As a matter of fact, my original posting is so far the only one to address the actual question at all. So vote on that.