[mythtv-users] Boleslaw's truncated-delete patch

[Yeechang Lee]

Boleslaw Ciesielski <bolek-mythtv at curl.com> says:
> Hmm, maybe this is some kind of cifs recycle bin functionality? Do
> these files go away when you stop the backend? Do they go away when
> the disk fills? Or maybe they go away after a while automatically?

They do not go away when I stop the backend. I didn't try the
disk-fill test, for obvious reasons. They do not go away after
unmounting and remounting. I am pretty sure they don't go away after a
while (as in 18 hours or less).

> Try this: start a program that keeps a file open for writing
> (e.g. "cat >foo"; type something), delete the file ("rm foo" in
> another window) and see what happened. Then exit the program and
> check again.

'rm foo' did indeed move foo to cifsxx (yes, only two characters;
however, I have a 47M stub remainder that is called cifsxxx when all
other files of comparable size are cifsxxxx). Neither Ctrl-C (abort)
nor Ctrl-D (close properly) changed the situation; the cifsxx file
remained.

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