[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #1835: Gradually delete big files to avoid I/O starvation on some filesystems

[Chris Pinkham]

* On Sun May 21, 2006 at 05:57:00PM -0400, Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 02:10 +0000, MythTV wrote:
> > #1835: Gradually delete big files to avoid I/O starvation on some filesystems
> >  Marking this as won't fix.  If your filesystem can't handle large deletes,
> >  tune your system or pick a better filesystem.  This has been discussed
> >  over and over again on the mailing lists.
> 
> Chris, I think this is actually a good idea. It seems that a lot of
> users like to use ReiserFS and ext3 despite all our warnings in the
> documentation. This and the big scheduler query are the top two reasons
> for corrupted recordings with MythTV. Solving this on the recorder side
> is a lot more complicated than this little fix..
> 
> -- Daniel

OK, ticket reopened after a discussion on IRC and I added some comments to
the ticket.

--
Chris