Timeline for Delete a folder with a lot of files
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| Apr 22, 2023 at 20:39 | comment | added | Matt Sephton | It would be useful to have benchmarks of this vs rm vs rsync, etc. | |
| Aug 20, 2021 at 4:13 | comment | added | Abhi Beckert | @nohillside There isn't a hard limit, rather performance gradually gets worse the more you have and 10,000 is around when you are likely to run into problems depending what software you are using. As for how I got to that number, it's a combination of real world experience and research over decades spent managing large data sets. It also, obviously, depends on the speed of your storage system. An enterprise grade PCIe SSD is going to handle large numbers better than a Micro SD card. | |
| Jul 9, 2021 at 4:04 | comment | added | historystamp | I wouldn't be so hard on this poster, assuming the code works. Although, the poster estimates are from the days of DOS. | |
| Jul 8, 2021 at 6:21 | comment | added | nohillside♦ | Do you have a reference for the claim about the number of files per directory? | |
| Jul 8, 2021 at 2:57 | history | answered | Abhi Beckert | CC BY-SA 4.0 |