[mythtv-users] mass deleting shows?

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 01:39:07PM -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> I'm a big believer in this setting.  With it, I can use
> rock-solid-stable ext3 without feeling the effects of its one
> downside--the fact that it "locks" up I/O for a long time when deleting
> large files in one fell swoop.  I no longer have to schedule deletes
> during periods when no recordings are occurring.

I presume it uses ftrunc in a loop to shorten the file and return
blocks to the free list, and *then* does the unlink?

Cheers,
-- jra
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