[mythtv] Re:Channel change speed

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 03:28:05PM +0100, Edward Wildgoose wrote:

> Sounds good.  Perhaps I shouldn't have just formatted my big partition in
> ext3....  I do notice that deleting large files, eg 1-2 GB mpg takes a
> good few secs under ext3

Depends on whether you're dedicating that filesystem to MythTV.

> It's also very slow to handle the gentoo portage database which is pretty
> much just 60,000 small files chucked into a hierarchical directory
> structure.  Not sure if reiserfs would be faster here since it's basically
> a directory enumeration task, however, I plan to try a loop back partition
> with reiserfs to see.

Depends on what you operations are performed on those 60,000 small files.
One this is sure; reiserfs (with tail packing) will use significantly less
space to store them.

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 - mdz