[mythtv] Re: FileSystem to use for Myth ( was Re:Channel chang e sp eed)

[Rick Warner]

I use reiserfs on all of my partitions (about 400G of storage total) and have 
no problems.  I also work for a linux cluster company and we use reiser by 
default for all orders (unless otherwise specified) with only one problem 
reported (and it was with an old 2.4.17 kernel with NONSTOP io)


On Tuesday 16 September 2003 03:04 pm, Tobias Blomberg wrote:
> I can see your point, Ben. Probably just a waste of time to setup multiple
> partitions. Let's see what Willy think of it when he's done :-)
>
> If you still are not satisfied with the performance for the ring buffer on
> XFS a rather crazy idea would be to write the ring buffer directly to the
> partition, bypassing all filesystems or writing a dedicated ring buffer
> file system. Some coding would of course have to be done to make this work.
> And probably this is also just a waste of time :-)  It could be a fun
> project though...
>
> / Tobias
>
> On Tuesday 16 September 2003 16.05, Ben Bucksch wrote:
> > Note that what I reported is not a problem for mythtv. It may only trash
> > files which are in the process of writing while (or were in the last
> > seconds before) the system crash / poweroff. Even in that case, the huge
> > files are probably not lost completely, but only the last 30 seconds or
> > so. Even if the files are lost, I don't think it's a huge problem - if
> > you have a lockup in the middle of a recording, the recording is
> > probably only half-finished and useless to you anyways, even if the
> > filessystem didn't lose anyways. I wouldn't want to watch only the first
> > half of a movie.
> >
> > In short, I don't see a problem with using XFS for MythTV's recording,
> > in fact it seems to be ideal.
> >
> > (Maybe even more so, if the realtime capability is implemented, but I
> > don't know, how useful that would be for MythTV.)
> >
> > Ben
> >
> > Boyd II, Willy wrote:
> > >Which is exactly what I'm planning on trying now...
> > >
> > >-----Original Message-----
> >
> > From: Tobias Blomberg [mailto:blomman at ludd.luth.se]
> >
> > >Or maybe just a small FS for the ring buffer and ext for the rest. Then
> > > it doesn't really matter if it crashes and you get fast ring buffer
> > > handling. That was the initial problem as I have understood it.
>
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-dev mailing list
> mythtv-dev at mythtv.org
> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev