Gregory Stark wrote:
> What filesystem is this?
Ext3 on Fedora Linux.
> Some filesystems are notoriously slow at deleting
> large files. The mythtv folk who face this problem regularly recommend either
> JFS or XFS for this purpose.
That's a remarkable advice, because XFS is known to be slow at creating and deleting files, see
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFS> and <http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1479435>.
Regards,
Adriaan van Os