[mythtv-users] Live TV Pauses

[David]

Stephen Tait wrote:

> At 11:37 30/06/2004 -0600, you wrote:
>
>> > 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..
>
>
> Try JFS.

I'd say that's a waste of time for this problem :)

> It's not as fast at transfers as XFS, but it's got *much* lower 
> resource usage, and is the file speed deletion king. I left a cat 
> /dev/video0 > really_huge.mpeg going for 12 hours and JFS deleted it 
> in a second :^)


(also deletion time isn't a performance guide :)
Useful for all kinds of reasons but not relevant here)

David