[mythtv-users] rebalance deleted recordings

Eric Sharkey eric at lisaneric.org
Thu Mar 20 15:28:30 UTC 2014


On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Brian J. Murrell
<brian at interlinx.bc.ca> wrote:
> I would ask instead, why expire it before you need the space?  What
> benefit do you get from expiring it before you need the space.

Reduced filesystem fragmentation?

When a filesystem is nearly full, there aren't as many options for how
to write a new file to disk, and it's less likely to be written
contiguously (or nearly contiguously).

Eric


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