<br><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>The normal usage pattern for the recording dirctory of a mythtv system<br>is quite close to a worst case scenario:
<br><br> - huge files<br> - filesystem almost completely full all the time<br> - lots of deletions / new files<br> - especially bad if you've got several video cards and do concurrent<br>recordings.<br><br>My 1.4Tb video dir with xfs showed significantly degraded performance
<br>after about 9 months; state of filesysem: ~800 files stored using more<br>than 1.5 million fragments, with a fragmentation factor of 99.97%. This<br>means that each file is on average distributed over almost 2000 seperate
<br>locations on disk, which does NOT help performance AT ALL :-)</blockquote><div><br><br>Reiserfs running on LVM. It seemed like a real good idea at the time... I've only got a little over half a terabyte of storage, but I don't have tons of freespace to shuffle things and start again with xfs.
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