[mythtv-users] Suggestions for a partition structure

[Thomas Mashos]

On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 7:22 PM, Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 9:38 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
>> Assuming this is the same issue that affected ext3, deletion of large files
>> could cause the entire system to stall. Preventing this possibility is the
>> purpose for the "slow delete" option in MythTV.
>
> which, when enabled, seems to solve the problem perfectly.
>
> In all the years of struggling to improve the WAF, I never once heard
> "I wish I could delete faster".
>
> Eric
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FWIW, I'm pretty sure EXT4 does not have the same issues with large
files (including deleting large files) that previous versions of EXT
had. IIRC, I believe this was one of the big new features of EXT4.
Mythbuntu for one uses EXT4 as the default filesystem for the
recordings partition.

Thanks,

Thomas Mashos