[vdr] Re: OT: 149 GB Maxtor disks.

["Bernd Hoose" <bernd@hoose.de>]

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> From: news@jstriegel.de [mailto:news@jstriegel.de]
> Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 9:18 AM
> To: vdr@linuxtv.org
> Subject: [vdr] Re: OT: 149 GB Maxtor disks.
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> >Using 2.4.18 from kernel.org with the xfs patch from 
> http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download.html
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> Made it on debian with the 2.4.18 kernel patches for xfs. 
> Worked on first try perfectly.
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> >xfs can use quota, you need to make the fileprogs completely then you
> also have 
> many usefull things for xfs.
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> Yes, you also have the chance to do 'isochronous' transfers 
> via xfs. Didn't try that.
Me too

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> c't said that xfs doesn't have the problem with interruption 
> of the stream when transferring large data to and from disk 
> (reiserfs seems to have problems with it while re-managing 
> it's trees). But on my debian with xfs I've got also 
> interruptions: transfer rate is very high until the buffers 
> seem to be full. Then the rate drops down to almost zero for 
> a couple of seconds, and then it is high again. This is also 
> true for data rates that are approx. the half of 'full speed'.
> Known problem?
Dont know the full speed, at my system transferrates are +-1 the same
under xfs reiser or ext3
bernd

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> Juergen
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