[mythtv-users] Information/Recommendations on a new MythTV
Kevin Hulse
jedi at mishnet.org
Wed Oct 11 17:02:17 UTC 2006
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 09:16:28AM -0700, Brad DerManouelian wrote:
> On Oct 11, 2006, at 9:07 AM, Brian Wood wrote:
>
> > It certainly could be a problem, but it hasn't really been so for me.
> > I have a single-user Myth box and almost never auto-expire things, so
> > deletions are generally manual. I just pay attention to what's
> > happening if I need to delete a long file, and the worst case is I
> > get a second or two of lost data on a recording, not a major issue
> > for me, no worse than a drop-out on an analog video tape.
> >
> > As I said, adequate buffering should go a long way to eliminating
> > this problem. Multi-Gigabyte video files were not really in vogue
> > when EXT-2 was designed, and most applications do not have real-time
> > requirements.
> >
> > But if choosing another FS eliminates even that minor problem, with
> > no downside, I'd do that if I had it to do over again.
>
> I just wanted to point out a feature in .20 that allows incremental
> deletes of video files to alleviate the slow delete problem on ext2/3
> file systems. With this enabled, it deletes the file in chunks over
How do you turn this on?
Alternatively, what other filesystems would be better than ext3?
> time. I haven't tried it since I use jfs on my video drive, but
> others have had success with it.
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