[mythtv-users] Fastest RAID for HD?

Ronald Frazier ron at ronfrazier.net
Thu Feb 14 15:36:20 UTC 2008


>  I think the big problem is without tuning MythTV and ext3 want to
>  write to the array in too small of chunks too frequenty causing
>  thrashing. As  I said before raid5/raid6 are bad when they thrash.

What about XFS or JFS?
Also, can the OS's write caching be tuned to avoid/minimize the
problem (if it even is a problem for the intended usage)?

-- 
Ron


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