Deletion can be much slower than file creation when the files are hundreds of mb too! Worst of all, "rm -R" runs right into XFS's most pathological case -- it'

Deletion can be much slower than file creation when the files are hundreds of mb too! Worst of all, "rm -R" runs right into XFS's most pathological case -- it's doing tons of metadata reads while it unlinks files, and XFS shoves a lock in every orifice.