[mythtv-users] Slow Deletes option?

James Pifer jep at obrien-pifer.com
Wed Apr 11 14:03:42 UTC 2007


> If I remember correctly, its on the first (general) settings page in 
> mythtv-setup. Are you aware that with ext3  your maximum file size is 
> 4Gb and trying to record a file larger than that will cause a crash? You 
> might want to think about switching your recording partition to XFS or 
> another large file enabled filesystem.

Well, I've recorded shows on occasion larger than 4Gb and never had a
crash due to that. I am open to switching file systems at some point,
but I don't see a 4Gb limit happening. I'll record something today that
will result in larger then 4 Gb and see what happens.

James



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