[mythtvnz] mythtvnz Digest, Vol 21, Issue 38

Jean-Francois Pirus jfp at clearfield.com
Thu May 14 06:59:20 BST 2009


> As I'm new to Mythtv, I'm wondering what these "slow deletes" are that
> have been mentioned a few times now. Is this something I need to turn
> on, or is on by default now? What sort of issues can crop up, that I
> should be aware of? Ie, how would I recognize if I have a problem
> requiring this?

It's not to fix a problem, but a GUI improvement.

If you're using the ext3 filesystem, it's notoriously slow deleting files, so 
that setting just queues up the delete so that the GUI is still useable in 
the meantime.

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