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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I just installed a second hard drive into
my mythtv box and I following the recommendation of using LVM partition.
What I did not expect is that my tv quality would get
affected.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Before I installed this drive, I had a older
20G drive (5000 rpm I believe) drive with default partition from rh9 install and
everything was ok.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I then installed a 80G drive, with LVM partion, and
as soon as I tell mythtv to store ringbuffer on this on, the tv playback start
to become choppy with small ~300ms pause every 2 second or so.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I don't understand; I though this drive was
slightly faster, and I did not think LVM was slower... Maybe I did something
wrong with the LVM partition: this is pretty new stuff to me.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Here is what I did:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>fdisk /dev/hdb</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>// create a single partition of type 8e
(LVM)<BR></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>n p 1 ret ret t 8e p w</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>reboot<BR>pvcreate /dev/hdb1<BR>vgcreate -s 64m vg0
/dev/hdb1<BR>vgdisplay -v<BR>lvcreate --n localdisk --size 76.25G
vg0<BR>mkfs.ext3 -T largefile4 -m 0 /dev/vg0/localdisk<BR>mount
/dev/vg0/localdisk /localdisk<BR></DIV></FONT>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Help much appreciated;</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Cheers,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Olivier.</FONT></DIV>
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