Re: [vdr] making VDR ext4-ready

2009-06-13 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 06/09/09 00:47, Marcel Witte wrote: > jori.hamalai...@teliasonera.com schrieb am Montag 08 Juni 2009: On 07.06.2009 01:58, Marcel Witte wrote: So ext4 seems to be perfect for a video-partition, but to make it more perfect, it would be nice if VDR could use the fallocate()-systemca

Re: [vdr] making VDR ext4-ready

2009-06-08 Thread Marcel Witte
jori.hamalai...@teliasonera.com schrieb am Montag 08 Juni 2009: > >> On 07.06.2009 01:58, Marcel Witte wrote: > >> So ext4 seems to be perfect for a video-partition, but to make it more > >> perfect, it would be nice if VDR could use the fallocate()-systemcall > >> as mentioned in the article. This

Re: [vdr] making VDR ext4-ready

2009-06-08 Thread jori.hamalainen
>> On 07.06.2009 01:58, Marcel Witte wrote: >> So ext4 seems to be perfect for a video-partition, but to make it more >> perfect, it would be nice if VDR could use the fallocate()-systemcall >> as mentioned in the article. This would prevent fragmentation in the file system. > Udo wrote: >Sounds

Re: [vdr] making VDR ext4-ready

2009-06-07 Thread VDR User
On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 12:01 AM, Thomas Schäfer wrote: > Am Sonntag 07 Juni 2009 schrieb VDR User: >> Why not use the XFS filesystem?  Proven high performance with large >> files, perfect for an htpc. > > He asked for ext4, not for suggestions for filesystems. If you look closely you'll notice a q

Re: [vdr] making VDR ext4-ready

2009-06-07 Thread Udo Richter
On 07.06.2009 01:58, Marcel Witte wrote: > So ext4 seems to be perfect for a video-partition, but to make it more > perfect, it would be nice if VDR could use the fallocate()-systemcall as > mentioned in the article. This would prevent fragmentation in the file system. Sounds like a good plan, but

Re: [vdr] making VDR ext4-ready

2009-06-07 Thread Udo Richter
On 07.06.2009 01:58, Marcel Witte wrote: > So ext4 seems to be perfect for a video-partition, but to make it more > perfect, it would be nice if VDR could use the fallocate()-systemcall as > mentioned in the article. This would prevent fragmentation in the file system. Sounds like a good plan, but

Re: [vdr] making VDR ext4-ready

2009-06-07 Thread Tony Houghton
On Sat, 6 Jun 2009 19:11:53 -0700 VDR User wrote: > Why not use the XFS filesystem? Proven high performance with large > files, perfect for an htpc. That's what I thought, but I regret using it for my recordings partition now: * The big performance advantage in deleting large files seems to

Re: [vdr] making VDR ext4-ready

2009-06-07 Thread Artur Skawina
Marcel Witte wrote: > So ext4 seems to be perfect for a video-partition, but to make it more > perfect, it would be nice if VDR could use the fallocate()-systemcall as > mentioned in the article. This would prevent fragmentation in the file system. a) i wouldn't fully trust ext4 for a few more

Re: [vdr] making VDR ext4-ready

2009-06-07 Thread Thomas Schäfer
Am Sonntag 07 Juni 2009 schrieb VDR User: > Why not use the XFS filesystem? Proven high performance with large > files, perfect for an htpc. He asked for ext4, not for suggestions for filesystems. Thomas Schäfer ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org ht

Re: [vdr] making VDR ext4-ready

2009-06-06 Thread VDR User
Why not use the XFS filesystem? Proven high performance with large files, perfect for an htpc. ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr

[vdr] making VDR ext4-ready

2009-06-06 Thread Marcel Witte
Hi, today I've read an interesting article about ext4: http://www.heise.de/open/Das-Linux-Dateisystem-Ext4--/artikel/138431 (german, but there is also an english version). The new file system seems to be better for large files, as VDR-recordings are. Files up to 512 MB can be saved with just 1