Re: removing an ext2fs file forces disk activity

[Thomas Bushnell, BSG]

nisse@lysator.liu.se (Niels Möller) writes:

> I guess I should have asked for the ratio B/A. If that's small, as you
> claim, there should be a significant gain. _If_ it turned out that A
> and B were of the same size, then the gain would be quite small,
> decreasing the number of required syncs at most by a smallish factor
> like 2 or 5.

Um, cutting the number of syncs in half would have a *huge* impact.  I
think you underestimate the cost of a disk seek.