[mythtv] Re:Channel change speed

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 02:56:16PM +0100, Edward Wildgoose wrote:

> Well, it was just a thought.  Since people mentioned that it took a while
> to shut down the last session on channel change I wondered if it was
> something to do with the time needed to remove the buffer file from disk.
> Ext3 at least with certain journalling takes a few secs to delete large
> files (presumbaly updating the bitmap).  I believe that Reiser isn't great
> with large files either, but I don't run it so have no experience...

Reiserfs has extent mapping, and handles large files much faster.

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 - mdz