[vdr] Re: Filesystem pros & cons

[Jeremy Hall <jhall@maoz.com>]

so how do I convert my 300gb /video from ext3 to xfs? (assuming that is 
what I wanted to do)

_J

In the new year, Clemens Kirchgatterer wrote:
> Guido Fiala <gfiala@s.netic.de> wrote:
> 
> > Just about small files? I thought the efficiency ( that is the number
> > of useful data r/w from disk to/from memory in a block) is much higher
> > for reiserfs - ok, one would say (caching) memory is cheap, but
> > disk-bandwith is'nt... (i noticed that kde is almost twices as fast
> > loading on reiser partitions)
> 
> FWIHH, one of the strength of reiserfs is, that it is "fscking ;-)" fast
> on small files compared to other fs. on the other side xfs is claimed to
> outperform the others on very big files. so regarding to vdr, i would
> prefer xfs anyway.
> 
> > The most interesting things for xfs would be the bandwidth reservation
> > feature - that way vdr would be guaranteed to have the necessary
> > bandwidth for it's recordings going on, if no reserve is left it would
> > not start another thread - will/does that work?
> 
> IIRC, bandwidth reservation is not implemented on linux yet. but i could
> be wrong.
> 
> clemens
> 
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