[mythtv-users] Partitioning

[Mike Perkins]

R. G. Newbury wrote:
> 
> However there is probably nothing stopping someone from using different 
> filesystems on different partitions on the same spindle.
>
The point of having your OS and your recordings on different spindles is head 
movement: While your video is being streamed to disc, the seek table is being 
updated in the database. It's obviously more efficient if your disk heads don't 
need to continually move from one part of the platter to another to update both 
those files at the same time.


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Mike Perkins