Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934720AbZDCPRc (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Apr 2009 11:17:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S934338AbZDCPQx (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Apr 2009 11:16:53 -0400 Received: from caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca ([129.97.134.17]:58841 "EHLO caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932650AbZDCPQv (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Apr 2009 11:16:51 -0400 Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 11:16:48 -0400 To: Mark Lord Cc: Andrew Morton , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, tytso@mit.edu, drees76@gmail.com, jesper@krogh.cc, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.29 Message-ID: <20090403151648.GJ3795@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> References: <20090326171148.9bf8f1ec.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090326174704.cd36bf7b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090326182519.d576d703.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090401210337.GB3797@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <20090401143622.b1885643.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090401225737.GC3797@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <49D6214A.9030204@rtr.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49D6214A.9030204@rtr.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) From: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1066 Lines: 24 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. -- Len Sorensen -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/