<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 6:49 PM, David Brodbeck <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gull@gull.us">gull@gull.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Mon, September 29, 2008 2:43 pm, Bobby Gill wrote:<br>
> I will be adding at least another big drive soon just for Recordings on my<br>
> Mythbox and I'm interested to know what the advantage(s) is for XFS over<br>
> EXT3? Some stuff I checked on Wikipedia was far too technical for an<br>
> intermediate like myself.<br>
<br>
</div>From a MythTV perspective, the main benefit has to do with file deletion.<br>
When a large file is deleted in EXT3, the entire filesystem blocks until<br>
the deletion completes. That means ongoing recordings can't write to the<br>
disk while the deletion is happening, potentially causing hiccups in the<br>
video. XFS doesn't have this problem.<br>
<br>
However, MythTV has a workaround called "slow deletes". This avoids the<br>
problem with EXT3, at the slight cost of causing the disk space used by<br>
deleted files to be freed up more slowly.<br>
<br>
In other words, either file system will work fine, but if you use EXT3 you<br>
should turn on the "slow deletes" feature in Myth.<br>
<br>
Hope this helps.<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br>Thanks very much David, I actually did turn on the Delete Files Slowly option in mythtv-setup a few weeks ago and it does take a while to get done, but deleting now does not cause any hiccups in playback so I think it works fine. Are there other notable advantages/disadvantages between the two from a Myth perspective?<br>
<br>Thanks<br>Bob<br></div>