[mythtv-users] software raid 5 xfs

Andy Speagle sidrew at gmail.com
Sat Apr 14 20:19:33 UTC 2007


Yes... I'm using gentoo.... compiling is trivial... the problem lies with
XFS... and stack overflows... with 4k stacks.

On 4/14/07, Daniel Agar <daniel at agar.ca> wrote:
>
> I briefly read something about the 4k vs 8k stacks problem. Did you have
> to build your own kernel to fix this?
>
>
> > I'm using 4x 250GB PATA-100 Hard Drives ... two on the on-board nForce
> > chipset... two on a Promise PDC20248.  I'm using software RAID-5 across
> > all
> > 4 disks... I have 2x PVR-350's and 1x PVR-500 and have at times been
> > recording 4 streams at once, while watching another.  This is all on the
> > same box, combined backend and frontend.
> >
> > I originally had a problem with using XFS for my video storage, but
> > someone
> > clued me into the 4k vs 8k stacks problem... but once that was solved,
> > this
> > thing runs solid.
> >
> > I hope that helps.
> >
> > Andy
> >
> > On 4/14/07, John P Poet <jppoet at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 4/14/07, Daniel Agar <daniel at agar.ca> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > What kind of hardware do you have? My backend is a sempron 2600 with
> a
> >> > gig
> >> > of memory.
> >> >
> >> > Also which distro are you using? I've always gone with fedora for my
> >> > mythboxes.
> >>
> >>
> >> CPU: Pentium4 3.0GHz
> >> MEM: 1gig DDR400
> >> Motherboard: Asus P4C800-E
> >> Distribution: FedoraCore 6
> >>
> >> I am using the SATA ports on the motherboard, supplemented by a Promise
> >> TX4 PCI SATA controller.  Nice thing about Linux software raid -- you
> >> can
> >> mix and match any hard driver controller you want.
> >>
> >> John
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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