[mythtv-users] Are there any practical advantages of ext4 for MythTV?

[Nick Morrott]

On 18/04/2008, Marc Barrett <mnealbarrett at cox.net> wrote:

>  Anyway, one of the new features of F9 is support for ext4.
>  I was wondering if there are many practical real-world
>  advantages of ext4 for MythTV.  My system isn't cutting-
>  edge at all, just a 3Ghz P4 with HT, and a single 350G
>  SATA hard drive.

If you're currently recording to ext2/3 filesystems, the addition of
extents and pre-allocation may well improve write performance and
reduce fragmentation. Whether it will make a noticeable difference
depends on how much you're going to be stressing the hard drive - with
a small 1/2 tuner MythTV installation I doubt you'll see much, if any,
real-world difference. If I was using XFS/JFS (as I am) I'd stick to
them.

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