Christofer C. Bell wrote: > unlink is slower than rm removing a 1.5GB file (at least on ext3): > ... > I suspect that removing a large number of non-zero byte files will be > slower with unlink than rm. If it is then it is pointing to a kernel performance issue. Because there is very little difference between them. Until recently rm used unlink(2) and there would have been no difference. But recent versions of coreutils now use unlinkat(2) for improved security now instead. Any difference in performace would be in the realm of the kernel internals. It doesn't seem to me like there should be any significant difference. Bob
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