RE: [mythtv-users] [OT] how do you defragment a xfs formatted LVM?

2004-12-13 Thread Phill Edwards
Sorry for the slightly off topic question but since the LVM is my video partition its sort of mythtv specific :) Should I be performing some type of defragmentation on my LVM? The drive seems to be thrashing around quite a bit more recently and fragmentation comes to mind from my windows experienc

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] how do you defragment a xfs formatted LVM?

2004-12-13 Thread Marc Nicholas
You don't really need to worry about log/journalled file systems with regard to fragmenting. Bear in mind that XFS is a fully 64-bit file system and was designed from day one to address 9 exabytes! Now, there are nice things applicable to Mythtv that XFS has or could be taken advantage of: - H

[mythtv-users] [OT] how do you defragment a xfs formatted LVM?

2004-12-13 Thread William
Sorry for the slightly off topic question but since the LVM is my video partition its sort of mythtv specific :) Should I be performing some type of defragmentation on my LVM? The drive seems to be thrashing around quite a bit more recently and fragmentation comes to mind from my windows experienc

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] how do you defragment a xfs formatted LVM?

2004-12-13 Thread Chris Petersen
Should I be performing some type of defragmentation on my LVM? The drive seems to be thrashing around quite a bit more recently and fragmentation comes to mind from my windows experience. afaik, none of the *nix filesystems need to be defragmented. they're all pretty good about keeping fragmentat