Re: Which delete statement is faster?

In article <13ha3tiakjblj1b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Mike Minor" <mminorhsd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
I have a directory with 200000+files, all in the a*.txt;1 range. I need to
ftp these files to another server. After sending 30,000+ files via FTP I
realized the magnatude of the ftp process, and interrupted it. I want to
delete the 30,000+ file already ftp'ed before going back and looking at
continueing the ftp process in a different manner and it just seems to be
taking an extremely long time to perform the delete. I think the hang up is
the re-write of the directory contents back to disk after a few files are
deleted. I did the delete with a /log to watch how long it took to delete a
file. I noticed a pause of a few seconds after it listed 15 to 20 files that
were deleted.....


This is a good reason to get and use DFU, but in the meantime you
make get faster results via backup/delete to the null device.

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