[mythtv] Files still taking up disk space after unlink

Steven mythmail at richardstraat.homedns.org
Sun Oct 17 18:07:25 UTC 2004


> 
> Maybe the fd is inherited when a pthread is spawned, or something like 
> that? Or maybe this is a non issue. It does not look like, as I allowed 
> my backend to be alive for about 12 hours and the free space was not 
> reclaimed.
> 
> Regards,
> Mauricio

Could have saved yourself some time with a search in the archives. This
was discussed before and has to do with a problem in the myth protocol.
Using NFS is a workaround.

Look for a tread "Backend not releasesing deleted files." 'round the end
of September.

Steven



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