Re: Linux 2.6.29

[Mark Lord]

David Newall wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > - open the file
> >
> > - unlink the file
> >
> > - now sit in a loop, slowly nibbling away at the tail with
> >   ftruncate() until the file is gone.
>
> Why not fork and unlink in the child?
..

I think it does the equivalent of that today.

Problem is, if you do the unlink without the nibbling,
then the disk locks up the system cold for 2-3 minutes
until the disk delete actually completes.

-ml
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