[myth-ie] filesystem of choice?

[John Moylan]

I could be wrong, but I thought that one of the benefits of a properly
journaled ext3 system was that deletes can be queued in the journal
for deletion without blocking the rest of the system. You do need to
ensure that the journal is big enough though.

J

On 25/03/2008, Justin Mason <jm at jmason.org> 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.
>
>
>  Glen Gray writes:
>  >  I've used both in the past and found XFS to be a better performer,
>  > especially on my lower power box. So when I got with my new install
>  > after I get a replacement motherboard, I'll be using XFS again.
>  > --
>  > Glen Gray
>  > slaine at slaine.org
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > On 25 Mar 2008, at 15:07, Brendan Kehoe wrote:
>  > > The /video partition on our current box is an XFS filesystem ... in my
>  > > attempts with Mythbuntu and Mythdora, I'd been leaning towards
>  > > EXT3.  No
>  > > time presented itself in recent days, so it's still in The
>  > > Queue(tm), so
>  > > to speak.
>  > >
>  > > When I try again, I don't know if I'll actually go with EXT3.  Do
>  > > any of
>  > > you have a particular choice you made, versus just used a default?
>  > >
>  > > B
>  > >
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