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FYI: a 256,000,000-byte file name
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Jim Meyering |
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FYI: a 256,000,000-byte file name |
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Sun, 04 Dec 2005 20:02:16 +0100 |
Just to prove I could do it, I constructed a hierarchy 1 million
(and one) levels deep, with each directory name being 255 bytes long.
Then I made sure that GNU rm could remove it. Since I didn't
want to wait forever, I created it on a Linux/tmpfs file system.
It took a little over 2 minutes, with a little thrashing.
I vaguely recall seeing that rm's working set was around 400MB.
- FYI: a 256,000,000-byte file name,
Jim Meyering <=