Re: [vdr] Freezes with Reiserfs

2007-04-24 Thread Guido Fiala
On Tuesday 24 April 2007 19:34, Udo Richter wrote: > AFAIK notail disables reiser's ability to pack small (<12k) files > together, and since recordings are just a little bit bigger, I don't > think that this would help. Yes and no- it doesn't have to gather / manage tails that way and there are a

Re: [vdr] Freezes with Reiserfs

2007-04-24 Thread Udo Richter
Guido Fiala wrote: 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. AFAIK notail disables reiser's ability to

Re: [vdr] Freezes with Reiserfs

2007-04-23 Thread Guido Fiala
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 Reis

Re: [vdr] Freezes with Reiserfs

2007-04-23 Thread Udo Richter
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 o

Re: [vdr] Freezes with Reiserfs

2007-04-23 Thread Artur Skawina
Sven Schwyn wrote: > I'm having strange issues with my VDR box lately. However, I'm not sure > at all it has anything to do with VDR as other services are running on > it, too. > > The Gentoo box freezed four times in the past month, twice of which the > very minute a VDR timer stopped. (Maybe eve