[mythtv] Re:Channel change speed

[Steven J. Finnegan]

At 10:40 9/12/2003, you wrote:
>That's cool that reiserfs is faster at deleting huge
>files, but why are we blocking on the delete?  It
>seems that we should be able to just tell it to delete
>in the background, and then go on our merry ways
>building up a new buffer while the first one gets
>slowly broken down...

I/ve been wondering throughout this discussion why it is necessary to 
DELETE the file in the first place. Why not just let it be, and reset the 
write pointer when it next needs to be used?

sjf


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