[mythtv-users] thrashing hard drive

[kevin r. marshall]

Whether this has anything to do with the thrashing issue, i do not know, but you are correct about XFS.  I have used XFS exclusively since 2002 on both SGI and linux boxen and i have no complaints at all, but i'd like to know where this misconception about XFS and fragmentation comes from.  SGI doesn't support this view.  A default install of IRIX on a late model SGI box, will set itself to run fsr_xfs (name is swapped under IRIX) every morning at 3:AM.  Unfortunately, very few people who setup XFS under linux setup xfs_fsr to run under a cron job.

XFS is an excellent file system, and it is much less prone to fragmentation than many others, but no actively used file system is completely immune to it.

K

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 06:30:51PM -0400, Khanh Tran wrote:
> I hate to add this "unpopular" thought about Linux filesystems, but
> I've found defragging the filesystem to help thrashing.  I use xfs as
> my recording partition and it gets fragmented contrary to popular
> belief.
> 
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/XFS_Filesystem
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