[mythtvnz] Pixellation Every ~ 20 minutes

[Nick Rout]

On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 4:46 PM, tortise <tortise at paradise.net.nz> wrote:

> On 5/10/2012 7:18 p.m., Nick Rout wrote:
>  the
>
>> other recommended recording partition type was XFS, but I have never
>>> tried that.  You will need to install the jfsutils package to use JFS,
>>> and of course you will need another drive to copy the existing
>>> recordings to so that you can reformat.
>>>
>>
>> I use XFS, it's one of the recommended ones.
>>
>
> I'm replacing a 2TB drive with bad sectors to a new 3TB drive.  My other
> two 2TB media drives have been formatted EXT4. I've not been aware that's
> been an issue however in view of the preferrment of XFS I am thinking of
> formatting this new drive as XFS.  I don't see how that would cause an
> issue, can anyone comment?
>
>
I have seen ext4 described as being a problem - something to do with
"barriers" which i do not understand all about.

I have had no problems with xfs. If you have a 3G drive, it is likely to
have 4k sectors, make sure your partitions are properly aligned. If you
don't know about this, there is plenty on the net about it :)


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