[mythtv-users] Fastest file system

Chris Edwards chris.edwards at gmail.com
Sat Sep 10 03:03:42 UTC 2005


On 9/10/05, Brian McEntire <brian.mcentire at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Someone else mentioned lockups as a fact of life for developers, but
> sometimes there is another way. Kernel developers, and people who test code
> that crashes a lot sometimes use VMware or User Mode Linux (kinda a poor
> man's VMware) which allows running one or more Linux OSs on top of the
> real/host Linux OS. These can be used for testing/modeling networks (emulate
> a whole network on one computer) but they are also very good for crash prone
> development and testing. At least you don't have to wait for the whole PC to
> reboot, go through BIOS checks, etc., just fire up another virtual instance
> after a crash. Don't know if this would work for Myth development, but
> figured I'd mention it.

The best way to do this is probably with Xen. It's free, and you can
assign PCI devices to specific virtual machines. Then you could NFS
mount your filesystems, and not have to worry about fsck!

-- 
Chris Edwards
http://www.chris-edwards.org/


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