Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:59:12 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.29 |
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Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 10:46:34AM -0400, Mark Lord wrote: >> My Myth box here was running 2.6.18 when originally set up, >> and even back then it still took *minutes* to delete large files. >> So that part hasn't really changed much in the interim. >> >> Because of the multi-minute deletes, the distro shutdown scripts >> would fails, and power off the box while it was still writing >> to the drives. Ouch. >> >> That system has had XFS on it for the past year and a half now, >> and for Myth, there's no reason not to use XFS. It's great! > > Mythtv has a 'slow delete' option that I believe works by slowly > truncating the file. Seems they believe that ext3 is bad at handling > large file deletes, so they try to spread out the pain. I don't remember > if that option is on by default or not. I turned it off.
It's pretty painful for super-large files with lots of metadata.
Jeff
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