On Monday 23 April 2007 21:37, Udo Richter wrote: > Sven Schwyn wrote: > > However, I've seen that some people had issues a few years ago with > > ReiserFS (which I'm using, too). Now, I'm wondering if anybody using > > ReiserFS had system freezes as well. > > I had issues, and I'm still using Reiser3 for my video storage. > > On slow platforms, with a stressed out file system, Reiser may be > CPU-limited on throughput. But you have to run VDR for a long time with > disk almost full, and with lots of recordings coming and going to get > that level of fragmentation. And I'm not convinced that other file > systems would do better in these situations. > > Beside that, Reiser3 works fine for me. No total freezes I know of.
Maybe you should mount reiserfs with the "notail" option for video-partitions, which should kill most of the overhead. I run reiserfs with vdr since 10 years or so, no problems at all even when running in 100% used diskspace often. _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
