I'm trying to clean up a directory that contains a lot of data (more that 1 TB), with many of the files hard linked to save space. For some context, this is the drive where we keep our builds, and we have a lot media (several GBs) of media in each build, so we hard link a file if it is identical to a previous build product. I've noticed that trying to delete these directories is extraordinarily slow (~5 items per second).
My guess is that the delete is taking so long because of the large number of hard links to each file. Is there anything I can do to speed up this process, or am I stuck deleting several million items at 5/sec?
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