[mythtv-users] Planning Tuners and Disk I/O for a MythTVBackend System

[MythTV]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
> bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Raymond Wagner
> Sent: Tuesday, 9 February 2010 6:22 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Planning Tuners and Disk I/O for a
> MythTVBackend System
> 
> On 2/9/2010 02:16, MythTV wrote:
> > Opinions vary on this topic, but on a single disk, breaking it into
> > multiple
> > partitions increases seek time significantly.
> >
> > For example, /dev/sdb2 = livetv and /dev/sdb3 = recordings..
> >
> > If you watch live tv WHILE recording, the disk head will need to
seek
> > from
> > one extreme to another.
> >
> 
> That makes absolutely no sense.  The disk doesn't care how your
> partitions are set up.  It's going to have to seek from one file to
the
> other regardless.

That makes absolutely no sense.