Deleting large chunks of data in Red Hat Enterprise Linux on an ext3 filesystem takes a very long time.

Solution Verified - Updated 2012-06-22T17:56:56+00:00 -

Issue

When deleting large amounts of data from an ext3 filesystem the delete operation takes a long time to complete. Can the performance of delete operations be improved?

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