[mythtv-users] Freeze when deleting program

[Mercury Morris]

On 10/26/05, Steve Pugh <stevepugh at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> --- Mercury Morris <mercury.morris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Can you post the size(s) of the the recordings that
> > were deleted?
> > If you don't have that data, that's OK. I ask for
> > the size data because
> > on my EXT3 filesystem, deleting smaller size
> > recordings don't always
> > cause the freeze. But deleting huge HDTV, two-hour
> > recordings never
> > fails to cause the hiccup.
> >
> > By smaller size, I mean under 2.5 GB; larger size,
> > over 7.5 GB.
> >
> > Thanks again for posting your experiences with XFS
> > filesystem.
>
> My pleasure! (Heck, I'm just glad to contribute in
> some way...)
>
> The majority of deleted recordings were 2.7GB
> (one-hour dramas). I did delete a football game that
> had wound up somewhere in the 4-5GB range, and right
> now I've got a 5.4GB figure skating show waiting for
> my wife to see it before I can nuke it.
>
> I was, however, seeing my freezes with half-hour
> programs (~1.2-1-4GB) as well as longer ones.
>
> OK, great info! Your experiences with XFS, and several papers written
about different filesystems, have convinced me to use XFS for the
video/recordings
partition the next time I build (or re-build) a system.

Thanks, Steve.

--
MM
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