On 1/18/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jarod Wilson</b> <<a href="mailto:jarod@wilsonet.com">jarod@wilsonet.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 18:39, Michael Haan wrote:<br>> > > For the video store, XFS and JFS are really the only reasonable<br>> > > options. For your main Linux partitions ext3 and ReiserFS can<br>
> > > have some real advantages.<br>> ><br>> > Eh, ext3 works just fine for me right now. Slight lag on really large<br>> > deletes, but that's about the only issue. Haven't bothered tweaking the
<br>> > mount params to improve performance either, its good enough as-is.<br>><br>> Ok, so ReiserFS can cause issues with HD in Myth if you have 4k stacks, or<br>> not?<br><br>I'm not aware of any stack-specific issues with Reiser, only XFS (though it
<br>appears JFS has issues too).<br><br>> If so, how do I know if I have 4k stacks?<br><br>If its a Red Hat or Fedora Core 2.6 kernel, installed from one of Red Hat's<br>kernel rpms, its 4kstacks. Otherwise, you likely would have had to enable
<br>4kstacks in a kernel of your own building (though I seem to recall Gentoo<br>possibly defaulting to 4kstacks if you're using genkernel).<br><br>> How do I fix that, or do I<br>> just swap the FS to ext3? Sorry for being dense.....
<br><br>Sounds like Reiser just plain sucks for large files like those associated with<br>HDTV, but it isn't a kernel stack size issue. I'd switch to a different file<br>system myself.<br><br>--<br>Jarod Wilson<br><a href="mailto:jarod@wilsonet.com">
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http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br><br><br><br></blockquote></div><br>Ok - now we're getting somewhere! I'll see about moving to ext3 and see what happens.<br>