[mythtv] Re:Channel change speed

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 04:49:30PM +0100, Edward Wildgoose wrote:

> > 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.
> 
> rsync usually.  Or search to find all those with a certain name.  I guess
> this comes down to how efficiently you can enumerate the directory in
> practice.

rsync ends up being server- and network-bound, and the local filesystem
isn't much of an issue, assuming you're rsyncing down a tree from a remote
system.

-- 
 - mdz