[mythtv-users] Live TV Pauses

[Eric Joe]

Kevin Stussman said:
>> I am also using XFS ... for where myth is reading files, and I am seeing
>> the same jitters.
>
> I am starting to suspect XFS as well. When I do an emerge -s blah, the
> hard drive goes crazy for a while (i.e. taking longer than what I am
> used to seeing on other systems). But a move to ext2/3 seems like a step
> backwards though..


I run Myth on a Duron 1100 with 256 meg ram, PVR-250, UDMA133 120G Hard
Drive with ext3 filesystem and my Mythbox (other then the occasionaly
backend crash) runs flawlessly. I'd say if you think something other than
XFS will work better (and it does), then its *not* a step backwards.

Eric