[myth-ie] filesystem of choice?

[Justin Mason]

Damian O'Sullivan writes:
> <Fixed top post>
> 
> On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Justin Mason wrote:
> 
> >
> > Interesting!
> >
> > I have a problem with ext3 that if I delete a recording, the hard drive
> > will immediately rattle through the deletion operation -- slowing
> > everything else down and causing playback problems.  Maybe reformatting
> > as xfs would help that... Glen, have you noticed any slowdown after
> > deleting a recording with xfs?
> >
> > --j.
> >
> 
> XFS is designed for larger file so is a btter FS IMHO. I see no slowdown 
> at all. Also there is a an option that might help you ext3. I think it is 
> called slow delete. It is in mythtv-setup somewhere.

yeah, I tried that.  It didn't seem to help, for some reason...
can't quite recall why not.  (It may have caused crashes.)

--j.