[mythtv-users] thrashing hard drive

[David Brodbeck]

On Wed, September 24, 2008 3:30 pm, Khanh Tran wrote:
> I hate to add this "unpopular" thought about Linux filesystems, but
> I've found defragging the filesystem to help thrashing.  I use xfs as
> my recording partition and it gets fragmented contrary to popular
> belief.
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/XFS_Filesystem

I found mounting my XFS filesystem with the option "allocsize=512m" helped
reduce fragmentation.  I'm told this won't help for backends that are
writing to it over NFS, though.