[mythtv-users] Fastest RAID for HD?
John Drescher
drescherjm at gmail.com
Thu Feb 14 15:44:13 UTC 2008
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Ronald Frazier <ron at ronfrazier.net> wrote:
> > 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)?
>
I mentioned ext3 because it has a stricter default write policy
causing it to want to write the data to disk faster.
John
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