> ML> On my 120mhz HP-UX system this same operation on the same set of files
> ML> with the same model disk drive only takes a few seconds; whereas with
> ML> my 200MHz PPro Linux system it takes five to ten times as long...
>
> Just deleted a 2 Gig file on a Solaris machine. It worked instatntly
> but the disk space was freed in background.
>
> Place for possible improvement.
Make a forking option to /bin/rm? Or maybe make forking
the default and have a non-forking (sync) option...
I suspect Solaris and HP-UX are using 'kernel threads'
to do the job. Since Linux doesn't have that construction,
we might want to either add it to the C library or make
a forking /bin/rm.
Rik.
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