[mythtv-users] Mount options for ext4 recordings partition
George Galt
george.galt at gmail.com
Fri Aug 7 19:37:26 UTC 2009
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Johnny<jarpublic at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have an extra 250 GB drive I am going to add to my backend. I wanted
> to test out ext4 on this drive and see what I think. I know that ext4
> is relatively new and am aware of the risk. I was wondering if there
> are any mount options in that I should use for better performance as a
> mythtv recordings partition (allocsize?, etc)? I checked the man pages
> but I couldn't find anything for ext4, even if I did I wouldn't
> necessarily know what was actually helpful for this application.
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I've been using ext4 for my video partition (about 1.5TB on LVM) under
Fedora 11 for about six months with no problem on the default
settings. Here is my line from fstab:
/dev/mapper/vg_server-LogVol00 /video ext4 defaults 1 2
Deleting is significantly faster than ext3.
George
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