[mythtv-users] optimal ext2fs formatting for recordings

Brian Phillips brian.phillips at gmx.net
Wed Sep 3 11:48:29 UTC 2008


Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 September 2008 20:58, Nick Rout wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Jerome Yuzyk <jerome at supernet.ab.ca>
>> wrote: 
>>> I am about to add a 300G drive to my Myth box to hold my recordings.
>>> Is there an optimal way to format this drive for large files? The
>>> whole drive will be used for recordings (about 2.8G/hour for me)
>>> and the PNG thumbnails. 
>>> 
>>> Thanks!
>> 
>> XFS has many adherents for this purpose.
>> 
>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/XFS
> 
> Oh, I should have been more specific. Yes I know about XFS, but I was
> mostly wondering about ext3. Nothing against XFS though, but I was
> wanting to optimize ext3.

In my experience, ext3 has a little too much overhead for the larger
"storage" drives in a myth system.  All of my storage drivers are XFS for
this purpose.

Brian



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