[mythtv-users] thrashing hard drive

[Bobby Gill]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 6:38 PM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>wrote:

> On 09/24/2008 06:30 PM, Khanh Tran wrote:
> > I hate to add this "unpopular" thought about Linux filesystems, but
> > I've found defragging the filesystem to help thrashing.  I use xfs as
> > my recording partition and it gets fragmented contrary to popular
> > belief.
> >
> > http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/XFS_Filesystem
>
> And I've found that having at least 1 filesystem (each of approximately
> equal fullness) per capture card*** in my storage groups is the best way
> to prevent fragmentation.  And, having at least 1 spindle (drive) per
> capture card*** is the best way to prevent lots of seeking during
> recording.
>
> Mike
>
> *** I guess technically, due to multirec, you need at least 1 <whatever>
> per potential simultaneous recording (per virtual capture card?).
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Sorry if I'm going OT in this thread but do any of you have your MySQL Myth
database(s) on separate drives/partitions from the drive/partition you
capture to? Has it improved performance? I'm planning on doing this as per
another thread where it was recommended.

Thanks
Bob
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