[mythtv-users] Fast or Slow deletes ???

[John Drescher]

>> I made the switch for most of my storage groups.
>>
>> XFS deletes a 4GB file in less than 1 second with no locking problem.
>
> All my recordings drives use XFS. I've never had any problems with
> deletes, though I do still have slow delete enabled for the rare
> occasions that I turn on the slave backend (which has an EXT3 local
> storage group before it starts aiming at the NFS drives which are all
> XFS).
>

BTW, ext4 looks promising in this respect and its supposed to go
stable in 2.6.28 which should be out soon.

John