Re: Linux 2.6.29

Mark Lord
2009-04-03T15:42:19Z

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.
..

That option doesn't make much difference for the shutdown failure.
And with XFS there's no need for it, so I now have it "off".

Cheers