[mythtv-users] Fragmentation On Recording Disk?

Jason Portwood jason at wkrp.com
Thu Apr 5 12:29:57 UTC 2007


One thing and I don't know if this has been mentioned or not but maybe 
cyclical storage could be of use?

It's used in USENET servers 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_server_operation (look under spools).

The containers would be created first and never grow or shrink so no 
fragmentation would occur.  New stuff goes in and older stuff falls out 
when full.  Probably not what one would want but perhaps this would be 
something worthwhile for just the recording Mythtv does on the fly 
(thinking live tv).  One container per recording stream and a defined how 
much time to allot to it.

Not sure how well this would work for mpeg as usenet is just text files. 
Probably a crazy of the wall thought anyway.

Jason



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