[mythtv-users] Filesystem Tuning?

[David Reitz]

I'm not sure how far you are down this path already with the new drive, but
I have a 2TB Hitachi as well in my MythTV box and found it to be quite
noisy.  I found that setting acoustic management via hdparm helped greatly
for me.  If you're running Ubuntu/Mythbuntu, you could try adding the
following to /etc/hdparm.conf (replace <X> with the appropriate drive
letter) and then reboot:

/dev/sd<X> {
  acoustic_management = 128
}

This can also be accomplished using 'hdparm -M 128 /dev/sd<X>' (and possibly
set in /etc/init.d/rc.local for other distributions).

Cheers,
David

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Ken Mandelberg <km at mathcs.emory.edu> wrote:

> Are there any suggestions for ext4 filesystem tuning for performance
> beyond the ext4 defaults. This is for a mythtv media filesystem?
>
> I'm about to replace a noisy Hitachi 2TB drive with a hopefully quieter
> WD20EARS. Usually I just use dd drive to drive, but if its worth
> changing some defaults and do file copies I might do that. The
> filesystem is pretty full, so doing file copies will be slower than the dd.
>
>
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