[mythtv-users] ext3 suitability (Was: Re: Block size for ext3 partition)

John Pilkington J.Pilk at tesco.net
Fri Feb 8 08:39:23 UTC 2008


Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 01/23/2008 02:47 PM, Florin Andrei wrote:
>> David Brodbeck wrote:
>>   
>>> Keith Pyle wrote:
>>>     
>>>> My point is that while the choice of filesystem can be a factor, there 
>>>> are many other aspects to performance and ext3 is not by itself a bad 
>>>> choice in a well designed system.
>>>>       
>>> I think ext3's only flaw in this area, really, is that it blocks writes
>>> to the whole filesystem during deletes, which can take a considerable
>>> amount of time for large files.  MythTV's slow delete functionality has
>>> fixed that for everything except transcoding, I think.
>> Yes, deleting large files is painful with Ext3.
> 
Is there a standalone equivalent of the Myth ext3 slow-delete?


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