filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data

[Brian A. Seklecki]

On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 13:54 +0200, Olivier Mueller wrote:
> -> it took about 12 hours to delete these 30GB of files and
> sub-directories (smarty cache files: many small files in many dirs).

Haven't you ever had the pleasure of running Sendmail on Solaris? :)

Move this data store to a separate partition.  When it comes time to
burn the queue, stop the service, unmount the partition, newfs it,
remount, restart svc.

Long live Pisces v2.  ~BAS