I have a dir with a gigantic amount of very small files that I want to remove and simply removing the dir with
rm -rf /path/to/the/dir
is already taking multiple days.
It might sound strange that this is going slow, but the dir is not a dir on regular filesystem. It's a dir on a Lustre Filesystem of a cluster.
I'm running the rm
command on node A of the cluster which has the Lustre mounted, but the backend of the Lustre are 2 ZFS filesystems, one on node B and one on node C so all the networktraffic might be the cause of rm
going slow.
Does anyone know faster ways to remove the dir than my way ?
Asked by Eduardo J. Culpepper
(41 rep)
Jun 12, 2016, 11:44 AM
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