[mythtv-users] Recordings stay in database and on disk for some time after delete?

[Tom Dexter]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Vince Coen <vbcoen at btconnect.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 25 Feb 2010, Tom Dexter wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Tom Dexter <digitalaudiorock at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Wow...I just deleted a bunch of shows (older episodes of The Dr. Oz
>> Show) and the same thing is happening.  They disappear from the
>> recorded programs when you delete them (in either the frontend or
>> mythweb) but upon exiting and reentering the list they still show
>> until the slow delete is actually finished.  I'm thinking about
>> converting by recordings drive to ext4 and bagging the slow deletes
>> once and for all, but I'd really like to know if this is how it works
>> now.
>>
>> Am I the only one seeing this happen?
>
> On my system I have configured the partition used to store recordings on to
> XFS.
>
> Deletes are very quick eg, seconds. Both ext3 & 4 are very slow to delete
> which is why a setting is available to set this on to minimise cpu cycles.
>
> Vince
>
>

My understanding is that ext4 deletes large files very quickly.  As I
noted previously however, this (I believe) would only apply to files
actually created after an ext3 file system is converted to ext4, as
the old files will not have extents.

Tom