Gene Hightower

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• Commented on Perl to the rescue: case study of deleting a large directory
  No, you're right: like 100 to 150 million....
• Commented on Perl to the rescue: case study of deleting a large directory
  When I do the math, 3-5 spam mails a second for a year gives us more like a million to a million and a half files. Even a million files is enough to choke the UFS2 file system, which is...

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• karsten commented on Perl to the rescue: case study of deleting a large directory

  Thanks!

  For a couple of days I hassled with exactly the same problem. 10 million files and every tool I used likes to cache the directory for "performance" reasons...

  Now that script is running on a clients OSX server where the rsync/osx10.6 problem spammed a directory.