[mythtv-users] Myth 0.21 expiring ALL shows too soon with TONS of disk space available

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Thu May 3 04:54:04 UTC 2012


On 5/2/2012 19:36, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Raymond Wagner<raymond at wagnerrp.com>  wrote:
> ....
>> Because the only good reason to partition something is because you're going
>> to run significantly different filesystems optimized for specific tasks.
> Well, not always.  In the "good ol' days", file systems
> had limits that could be mitigated against by partitioning.
> There was that old 32MB DOS limit.  Various versions
> of ufs performed quite poorly with some large directory
> sizes (everything was a sequential search).  Even today,
> with ext3, a large multi-terabyte file system can take
> many many hours to fsck depending on how the backend
> disk array is configured.

Just because something is necessary doesn't mean it's good. :)


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