Ext3: Faster deletion for big files?

[Roland Bock <rbock eudoxos de>]

Hi,

is there a way to speed up the deletion of big files on an Ext3 file 
system?

I have to delete two rather big files (200GB each) once per day.

The deletion of these two files takes almost 15 minutes on a Raid6 with 
16 Disks. During this time the IO system of the machine is pretty much 
occupied...


Any suggestions?


Regards,

Roland