[mythtvnz] mythtvnz Digest, Vol 21, Issue 38

[Wade Maxfield]

On 14/5/09 5:59 PM, Jean-Francois Pirus wrote:
>> 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.
>

I thought it was a new method (introduced 0.20) that deleted a file in 
chunks (by progressively shrinking a file), and was designed not to hog 
I/O on filesystems like ext3.  Didn't know it had anything do with with 
GUI responsiveness.

  - Wade