[mythtv-users] Linux/windows filesystem

Joseph A. Caputo jcaputo1 at comcast.net
Mon Jan 5 16:02:20 EST 2004


On Monday 05 January 2004 15:06, Tim Litwiller wrote:
> And be aware of the 2 gig filesize limit on certain filesystems - a
> recording could easily go over that.

Just to clarify, he's referring to the Linux vfat (which is the FS 
driver used to access DOS/Windows FAT (FAT12/16/32) partitions.  
*Don't* under any circumstances use any form of FAT as your main Myth 
video storage directory, or you'll end up with truncated recordings (at 
best) and a constantly crashing mythbackend.

-JAC



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