Re^4: unlink : reclaim inodes, etc.?

A few kilobytes for 500,000+ files?

I don't think so.

# cd /var/tmp
# mkdir lots-of-files
# cd lots-of-files
# perl -e 'for (1..500000) { { open my $f, ">poop.$_" } }'
# cd /var/tmp
# ls -ld lots-of-files
drwxr-xr-x   2 szbrhv   staff    10240000 Oct  5 10:01 lots-of-files
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That is 10 meg just for the directory, which might not be a concern with the large disks available but it's still a lot more than a few kilobytes.

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Re^5: unlink : reclaim inodes, etc.? by johngg (Canon) on Oct 05, 2007 at 08:44 UTC
Yes, you are right. A lot more significant than I thought. I guess what I have looking at before is 500,000+ files in a large tree structure rather than all in a single directory. Sorry, JohnGG	[reply]