Brandon Beattie wrote: > >Don't ever think about using ReiserFS. Some disk accessing is slow >first of all, such as deletes. If you delete a large file it can keep >the disk from writing for several seconds, by then Myth drops data. >Also, reiserFS does not handle large files very well. Combine a many GB >file and a directory holding 1+TB of data in it and you're really going >to have problems. You don't see this as bad with few large files in a >directory. > > > What are you suggesting as a substitute? XFS or stay with ext3?
>Don't put your recordings directory on the same disk as where MySQL >stores the DB for mythTV. You can lose data when mysql is using the >disk and doesn't let the mythfilewriter thread save data to the disk >before it's taken too long and discarded the data. > > > You are suggesting that the best setup would be to have everything *except* /video on /dev/hda and use a separate disk (/dev/hdb) for /video? So I should throw the spare 40Gig IDE drive into the mythbox, (re-install... I'm getting good at that!) and use the 120Gig of the SATA drive for /video? Geoff _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
