Rysnc Schedule

[Keith Lofstrom]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 08:45:28PM -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> On 7/18/07, Charles Marcus <CMarcus at media-brokers.com> wrote:
> >Is there an alternate way to remove an entire directory *without*
> >traversing the directory itself?
> 
> No filesystem that I know of provides one, although it would be great
> to be able to issue a single unlink or rmdir call and have the
> filesystem traverse the directory and free its insides in the
> background.

You may also wish to consider dirvish at www.dirvish.org .  It is
a scheduling wrapper around rsync, and includes an expire utility.

Keith

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