[mythtv-users] SUPER slow I/O on storage drive

Gavin Hurlbut gjhurlbu at gmail.com
Fri Nov 5 04:17:21 UTC 2010


On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Christopher Meredith
<chmeredith at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm using a 160GB SATA drive with an XFS filesystem for MythTV recordings.
> I've been using this drive for years with HD content with no problem. But
> for the past couple days, the read/write has been a real headache. Writing
> is slow, so recordings are approximately 5-7% smaller than they normally
> are, with skips. Reading is slow, as playback (even of properly-recorded
> material) has frequent buffering problems.

http://st-on-it.blogspot.com/2008/02/how-to-defragment-your-xfs-partition.html


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