[mythtv-users] Slow Deletes option?

James Pifer jep at obrien-pifer.com
Wed Apr 11 14:20:20 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 09:56 -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 04/11/2007 09:35 AM, James Pifer wrote:
> > From the "Best Filesystem Type" thread... where exactly is Slow Deletes?
> > I use ext3 and I believe I have this issue on occasion. I watched a show
> > the other night, finished it, deleted it, and the mythbackend crashed.
> > Monit brough it back up in short order, but 24 was recording at the time
> > so I have about a minute gap in the show...oops!
> >   
> 
> Delete files slowly
> Some filesystems use a lot of resources when deleting large recording 
> files.  This option makes Myth delete the file slowly on this backend to 
> lessen the impact.
> 
> In mythtv-setup, under "Backend Setup" (which comes right after "Host 
> Address Backend Setup").   I think that's in the "General" section on 
> page 2.
> 
> > So I'd really like to enable this option but I can't find it. I'm
> > running version 0.20-139.fc5.at. Is it in this version somewhere?
> 
> Don't remember.  I'll let you tell us...  :)

My version does have the slow delete option. 

As Brian says, to be safe, I will TRY to remember not to delete if
something is recording. 

Thanks,
James



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