[mythtv-users] Changing filesystems?

[Dave Alden]

Hi,

On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 12:04:53AM -0800, Jarod C. Wilson wrote:
> On Feb 4, 2004, at 20:56, Jeff wrote:
> 
> >Got a question hopefully someone can answer.  Since upgrading to 14, 
> >it seems
> >that whenever I delete a recording it takes *FOREVER* to delete it and 
> >come
> >back to the UI.  This seems to be especially bad when the backend is 
> >recording
> >and commflag'ing at the same time as the delete.
> >
> >I've got reiserfs on my LVM where I store my recordings and I'm 
> >assuming that
> >all that time to delete is because of the huge number of inodes used 
> >for big
> >files.
> >
> >Other particulars: there are two drives, 60G and 120G of which the LVM 
> >has
> >space on both; both are on one IDE channel (probably a bad thing); and 
> >the
> >journaling (or something) seems to be just eating up available space.
> >
> >The question is: how can I change the reiserfs to a ext3 fs to take 
> >advantage
> >of the largefile inode support or will this make any difference at all.
> 
> Ack. Most people have said that Reiser performs better than ext3 for 
> Myth, so I don't know that I'd recommend going that route. I've had 
> excellent results with XFS myself though.

I used to run with ReiserFS, but I had the same problem -- deleteing a
large file took several seconds.  I recently switched over to XFS and
have been very happy with it.  Note that there is no easy way to switch
filesystems -- you basically need to backup the data, reformat and then
restore the data.

...dave