[mythtv-users] Changing filesystems?

[Jeff]

Quoting Dave Alden <alden at math.ohio-state.edu>:

> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 12:04:53AM -0800, Jarod C. Wilson wrote:
> > On Feb 4, 2004, at 20:56, Jeff wrote:
> > 
> > >Got a question hopefully someone can answer.  Since upgrading to 14, 
> > >it seems
> > >that whenever I delete a recording it takes *FOREVER* to delete it and 
> > >come
> > >back to the UI.  This seems to be especially bad when the backend is 
> > >recording
> > >and commflag'ing at the same time as the delete.
> > >
> > >I've got reiserfs on my LVM where I store my recordings and I'm 
> > >assuming that
> > >all that time to delete is because of the huge number of inodes used 
> > >for big
> > >files.
> > >
> > >Other particulars: there are two drives, 60G and 120G of which the LVM 
> > >has
> > >space on both; both are on one IDE channel (probably a bad thing); and 
> > >the
> > >journaling (or something) seems to be just eating up available space.
> > >
> > >The question is: how can I change the reiserfs to a ext3 fs to take 
> > >advantage
> > >of the largefile inode support or will this make any difference at all.
> > 
> > Ack. Most people have said that Reiser performs better than ext3 for 
> > Myth, so I don't know that I'd recommend going that route. I've had 
> > excellent results with XFS myself though.
> 
> I used to run with ReiserFS, but I had the same problem -- deleteing a
> large file took several seconds.  I recently switched over to XFS and
> have been very happy with it.  Note that there is no easy way to switch
> filesystems -- you basically need to backup the data, reformat and then
> restore the data.
> 
> ...dave
> 

Jarod & Dave

Thanks for the replies - sadly that was the answer I suspected.  Perhaps an 
ignorant question but can LVM use XFS as the file system?  I really like the 
ability to add on space easily.