[mythtv-users] My experience with MythTV annoyances, 0.20-fixes version

[Michael T. Dean]

On 10/30/06 04:08, Yeechang Lee wrote:

>>* I use a 2TB Infrant ReadyNAS 600 to store my recordings. Infrant's
>>decision to use ext3--which blocks all writes during deletes and is
>>very slow at doing them--as the filesystem instead of something like
>>xfs or jfs means that I will lose about 30-60 seconds of whatever
>>I'm recording if I delete a recording of about 7.5GB or greater in
>>size.
>>    
>>
>Status: Almost-completely resolved. Thanks to Boleslaw Ciesielski's
>truncated-delete functionality (and Michael Dean for debugging an
>issue with CIFS), this is no longer an issue with 0.20. (I do have to
>work aorund another CIFS issue with an hack I outline at
><URL:http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/2364>.
>  
>
Do you mean specificially the deletion of silly renames in 
http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/2364#comment:7 ?  You're not still 
changing the sleep time, are you?

>mythtranscode doesn't yet use the 0.20 truncated-delete feature to get
>rid of originals after each transcode. I followed Michael Dean's
>suggestion at
><URL:http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/230560#230560>
>to preserve the originals and delete them when no recording is
>occurring
>
Thanks for the reminder that I promised to look into allowing 
transcoding deletes to use the truncation stuff is a good idea...  :)

Mike