[mythtv-users] Recordings stay in database and on disk for some time after delete?

[Vince Coen]

On Thursday 25 Feb 2010, Tom Dexter wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Tom Dexter <digitalaudiorock at gmail.com> 
wrote:

> Wow...I just deleted a bunch of shows (older episodes of The Dr. Oz
> Show) and the same thing is happening.  They disappear from the
> recorded programs when you delete them (in either the frontend or
> mythweb) but upon exiting and reentering the list they still show
> until the slow delete is actually finished.  I'm thinking about
> converting by recordings drive to ext4 and bagging the slow deletes
> once and for all, but I'd really like to know if this is how it works
> now.
> 
> Am I the only one seeing this happen?

On my system I have configured the partition used to store recordings on to 
XFS.

Deletes are very quick eg, seconds. Both ext3 & 4 are very slow to delete 
which is why a setting is available to set this on to minimise cpu cycles.

Vince