Grant Edwards wrote: > > This was probably 10ish years ago, but I switched my multimedia > filesystems from ext* to xfs because deleting a large file (several > GB) on an ext filesystem would basically lock up my machine for tens > of seconds. The seemed to be a known problem in the MythTv world and > the standard solution was to use xfs instead. Sure enough, deleting > large files on xfs didn't cause problems.
Same here, with a *really* big xfs filesystem: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda4 17T 17T 65G 100% / 'round 30,000 video files, no problems at all! -Matt