Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932424AbZDCS7i (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Apr 2009 14:59:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757925AbZDCS73 (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Apr 2009 14:59:29 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:34122 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756868AbZDCS73 (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Apr 2009 14:59:29 -0400 Message-ID: <49D65C80.4080003@garzik.org> Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:59:12 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090320) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lennart Sorensen CC: Mark Lord , 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 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> <20090403151648.GJ3795@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> In-Reply-To: <20090403151648.GJ3795@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.2.5 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.4 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1170 Lines: 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@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/