[mythtv-users] XFS: options when running mkfs.xfs
John Goerzen
jgoerzen at complete.org
Thu Sep 6 18:44:09 UTC 2007
On Thu September 6 2007 10:23:23 am Michael T. Dean wrote:
>
> Let me put it this way, when Myth starts writing a file at 8:00pm that
> will grow to an 8.5GB file by 9:00pm, the file system doesn't set aside
> 8.5GB of contiguous space on the disk. If Myth starts writing a second
With XFS, it might, depending on how often the cache is flushed.
> recording file at 8:00pm or 8:30pm or whatever, it is likely to be
> interleaved with the other file that's being written concurrently.
I don't really see that as a problem. The disk heads must continuously seek
to the next track anyway. So what if they have to skip 2 or 3? It's not
going to be an issue. The real problem is if it has to seek back and forth
all over the disk.
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