[mythtv-users] File System Recommendation?

Robert Johnston anaerin at gmail.com
Mon Apr 3 03:22:14 UTC 2006


On 4/2/06, Richard Dale <richard at interlink.com.au> wrote:
> > I'm using ext3 on a RAID-0 system. Who the heck cares if it takes a
> > second or two to delete a 1-hour show ??
>
> Here's an interesting solution - the recording could be flagged for deletion
> and then deleted in a background thread.  So, even if it takes a while it's
> the background thread that has to wait on I/O, not the foreground user
> interface.

You know, that sounds like a fantastic idea. A seperate thread that
nice(19)'d. Even if the situation is absolutely dire, that should
still give more than enough time for the file to delete before the
space is required.
--
Robert "Anaerin" Johnston


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