[mythtv-users] software raid 5 xfs

[Daniel Agar]

I briefly read something about the 4k vs 8k stacks problem. Did you have
to build your own kernel to fix this?


> I'm using 4x 250GB PATA-100 Hard Drives ... two on the on-board nForce
> chipset... two on a Promise PDC20248.  I'm using software RAID-5 across
> all
> 4 disks... I have 2x PVR-350's and 1x PVR-500 and have at times been
> recording 4 streams at once, while watching another.  This is all on the
> same box, combined backend and frontend.
>
> I originally had a problem with using XFS for my video storage, but
> someone
> clued me into the 4k vs 8k stacks problem... but once that was solved,
> this
> thing runs solid.
>
> I hope that helps.
>
> Andy
>
> On 4/14/07, John P Poet <jppoet at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On 4/14/07, Daniel Agar <daniel at agar.ca> wrote:
>> >
>> > What kind of hardware do you have? My backend is a sempron 2600 with a
>> > gig
>> > of memory.
>> >
>> > Also which distro are you using? I've always gone with fedora for my
>> > mythboxes.
>>
>>
>> CPU: Pentium4 3.0GHz
>> MEM: 1gig DDR400
>> Motherboard: Asus P4C800-E
>> Distribution: FedoraCore 6
>>
>> I am using the SATA ports on the motherboard, supplemented by a Promise
>> TX4 PCI SATA controller.  Nice thing about Linux software raid -- you
>> can
>> mix and match any hard driver controller you want.
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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