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Message-ID: <49D65C80.4080003@garzik.org> Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:59:12 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org> To: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca> CC: Mark Lord <lkml@....ca>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, tytso@....edu, drees76@...il.com, jesper@...gh.cc, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.29 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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