[mythtv-users] Fastest RAID for HD?

[John Drescher]

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