[mythtv-users] Dropped frames, simultaneous recordings and process priorities.

[Joseph Fry]

> Also, it is very important to use JFS or XFS for recording partitions,
> as deleting huge video files from EXT partitions frequently causes so
> much activity that it will prevent recordings from working.


This is not true for EXT4.  EXT2 & 3 will be slower for large file deletes
in most cases; however I seem to recall that on advanced format drives (4k
sectors), you can expect deletes to be about 4x-8x faster than the same
file size on a 512byte sector drive.
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