[mythtv-users] Deleting Recordings does not release Disk Space

[Tim]

William wrote:

>>Any good threads I should read on why Ext3 is a "BAD" choice.  
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>>Thanks,
>>Eric
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>The issue with ext3 is the amount of time it takes to delete a large file.
>It takes 10x longer to delete things than XFS. I dont have any links handy
>but a google should find you plenty of material.
>  
>

The benchmarks I have seen have put Ext3 AHEAD of XFS for fast large 
file deletion. To quote from SGI's own paper 
<http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/papers/filesystem-perf-tm.pdf> 
regarding XFS deletion:

"One shortcoming can be the poor file deletion performance,
which is constrained by synchronous disk writes"

Certainly on my XP2100 system, a delete of a 4GB file on 200GB ext3 fs 
takes less than a second.

Tim