<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/26/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Steve Pugh</b> <<a href="mailto:stevepugh@yahoo.com">stevepugh@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>--- Mercury Morris <<a href="mailto:mercury.morris@gmail.com">mercury.morris@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> Can you post the size(s) of the the recordings that<br>> were deleted?<br>> If you don't have that data, that's OK. I ask for
<br>> the size data because<br>> on my EXT3 filesystem, deleting smaller size<br>> recordings don't always<br>> cause the freeze. But deleting huge HDTV, two-hour<br>> recordings never<br>> fails to cause the hiccup.
<br>><br>> By smaller size, I mean under 2.5 GB; larger size,<br>> over 7.5 GB.<br>><br>> Thanks again for posting your experiences with XFS<br>> filesystem.<br><br>My pleasure! (Heck, I'm just glad to contribute in
<br>some way...)<br><br>The majority of deleted recordings were 2.7GB<br>(one-hour dramas). I did delete a football game that<br>had wound up somewhere in the 4-5GB range, and right<br>now I've got a 5.4GB figure skating show waiting for
<br>my wife to see it before I can nuke it.<br><br>I was, however, seeing my freezes with half-hour<br>programs (~1.2-1-4GB) as well as longer ones.<br><br></blockquote></div>OK,
great info! Your experiences with XFS, and several papers written
about different filesystems, have convinced me to use XFS for the
video/recordings<br>
partition the next time I build (or re-build) a system.<br>
<br>
Thanks, Steve.<br>
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