[mythtv-users] Fast or Slow deletes ???

Matt Nelson matt at frozenatom.com
Tue Dec 23 05:11:27 UTC 2008


I'm looking forward to ext4.  My problem is finding 4TB of space to move my
data to while I re-format my drive.

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 9:59 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:

> >> I made the switch for most of my storage groups.
> >>
> >> XFS deletes a 4GB file in less than 1 second with no locking problem.
> >
> > All my recordings drives use XFS. I've never had any problems with
> > deletes, though I do still have slow delete enabled for the rare
> > occasions that I turn on the slave backend (which has an EXT3 local
> > storage group before it starts aiming at the NFS drives which are all
> > XFS).
> >
>
> BTW, ext4 looks promising in this respect and its supposed to go
> stable in 2.6.28 which should be out soon.
>
> John
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