[mythtv-users] suggested partition size for /mnt/store?

acs at hourglassone.com acs at hourglassone.com
Mon Feb 10 14:22:09 EST 2003


That does, in fact, make a difference.

It really depends on whether your machine has a bus-mastered IDE
controller (most modern boxen do).  The distinction is that the ide
controller should be able to handle simultaneous read/write to both
drives.. Two drives is far better than one.

Cheers,
Aaron C:\STEWART>

> Now if they were on separate drivers totally, that would make a
> difference right?  And how much is gained from having multiple drives?
>
> --Micah Morton
> --Linux Network Test Engineer
> --Intel Corp
>
>> Depends on how much video you want to store :).  For performance, you
>> might want to make /home its own partition, especially if the box is
>> being used for other things as well.
>>
>> Although I'm not sure why you'd want to separate /mnt/store from the
>> recordings, since you then the drive has to seek out to a different
>> partition to write out buffers (leading to quite a bit of
>> head-banging).. Better off making it one place..
>>
>> Just my 2 bits.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Aaron
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net
>> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net] On Behalf Of John Hurliman
>> Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 1:34 PM
>> To: mythtv-users at snowman.net
>> Subject: [mythtv-users] suggested partition size for /mnt/store?
>>
>>
>> What is a good suggested hard drive size for the /mnt/store buffer
>> partition? I will be using a dual-tuner setup with an 80gb hard drive,
>> so two recordings could be running simultaneously. What is the maximum
>> size for each of the ringbuffers (is it configurable?) and are there
>> any
>>
>> other buffers or temporary files that should be taken into account
>> when creating this partition. I want to maximize hard drive space for
>> storage
>>
>> while leaving ample space for buffering. Also, the recordings/media
>> will
>>
>> be stored in /home/mythtv; is it worthwhile from a performance
>> standpoint to make /home yet another partition? Or maybe it makes more
>> sense to put the mySQL database on it's own partition and everything
>> else on the / partition. Samba will be running though and I don't want
>> file transfers to interrupt the recording and/or playback.
>>
>> So we may be looking at /, /boot, /home, /mnt/store, quite the
>> partition
>>
>> table!
>>
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