very large directories

From: nbecker@fred.net
Date: Tue Feb 29 2000 - 08:39:10 EST


A coworker has an application that produces 10's of thousands of small
files. It seems the performance of even a simple operation, such as
'rm -rf' or find | xargs rm is very very slow.

What are the mechanisms that limit performance? Is it the type of
data structure used to represent directories?

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