[mythtv-users] optimal ext2fs formatting for recordings

[Scott Harris]

Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> I am about to add a 300G drive to my Myth box to hold my recordings. Is there 
> an optimal way to format this drive for large files? The whole drive will be 
> used for recordings (about 2.8G/hour for me) and the PNG thumbnails.
> 

I just went through the trouble of converting all my mythtv filesystem
from ext3 to xfs.  The journaling on ext3 was nice, but it really made
the system slow.  If I tried more than two different activities I would
get the prebuffering pauses and related I/O problems.  After xfs, no
problems at all.

Scott