On Mon, 6 Jun 2011 22:52:48 -0500, Kenneth Emerson <kenneth.emerson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I hadn't given much thought to fragmentation of my TV recordings volume > (XFS) until reading through some MythTV-users threads recently that > mentioned how fragmented an XFS file system could become. After running > xfs_db, I found out that my fs appeared to be quite bad: MythTV can end up with fragmentation on XFS due to an fsync() call that attempts to work raound limitations in ext3. Workarounds include: - allocsize mount parameter - patch mythtv source not to fsync (you could easily write a patch that only did fsync if not xfs... I've been meaning to do this for years... not enough hours in day). - run mythbackend with libeatmydata, thus disabling the fsync -- Stewart Smith _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
