[mythtv-users] suggested partition size for /mnt/store?

[Chris]

I have a couple of 80 gigs and a 100 gigs strung together via LVM (260
gigs total for /mnt/store)  and ext3 filesystem on top of that.  Its
working pretty well supporting simultaneous recording of two shows and
playback of one recording.  I only have / on another partition and home
is under that. 

On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 13:39, Merle Reine wrote:
> I have raid 0 on 4 40 gig drives (160 gig) and I use it for my storage
> under Red Hat 8.  I use a seperate drive for the OS.  I can not tell of
> any differnece but this could be due to the fact that I already have a
> dual cpu setup with 1 gig ram and I think it is running as fast as it
> can already.
> 
> > That was my suscpicion.  I figured parralelling your drive read/writes
> > would speed things up as your head doesn't have to beat itself up trying
> > to allocate data.  What about IDE Raid?  Anybody using this setup? If so,
> > how is that going for ya?
> > 
> > I was totally considering getting 2 80gig drives and striping them into 1
> > 160gig partition.. this would allow for a lot of performance gain... Maybe
> > I'll venture into 2 200gig drives.. man.. 400gigs.. drool.. anyways.
> > 
> > 
> > --Micah Morton
> > 
> > 
> > > Micah Morton wrote:
> > >> Now if they were on separate drivers totally, that would make a
> > >> difference right?  And how much is gained from having multiple drives?
> > >>
> > >> --Micah Morton
> > >> --Linux Network Test Engineer
> > >> --Intel Corp
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>Depends on how much video you want to store :).  For performance, you
> > >>> might want to make /home its own partition, especially if the box is
> > >>> being used for other things as well.
> > >
> > > Micah, of course, anything can be taken a step further but
> > > at what point does the law of diminishing returns come into
> > > effect ;-). Head seeks have the biggest impact on disk
> > > access time. Having the recordings on a separate spindle
> > > is the biggest performance gain. Putting / and /home on
> > > the same disk is a good thing for organization and backups
> > > but won't perform any better than if home was in one big
> > > root partition.
> > >
> > > --  bjm
> > >
> > >
> > >
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