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Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:47:06 +0200
From: Adriaan van Os <postgres@microbizz.nl>
Subject: Re: TRUNCATE TABLE
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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