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Message-ID: <87ljb3gwee.fsf@willster.local.flamingspork.com>
Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 14:32:57 +1000
From: Stewart Smith <stewart@...mingspork.com>
To: Sandon Van Ness <sandon@...-ness.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is >16TB support considered stable?
On Fri, 28 May 2010 19:47:41 -0700, Sandon Van Ness <sandon@...-ness.com> wrote:
> able to allocate blocks or memory (it was a while back so I forget). I
> spent 24 hours defraging it getting the fragmentation down from like
> 99.9995% to 99.2% and the problem went away. XFS seems to excessively
> fragment (that horribly fragmented system was running mythtv and after
> switching to JFS I see way less fragmented files).
MythTV's IO path is well... hacked to get around all of ext3's quirks.
You can:
- mount XFS with allocsize=64m (or similar)
- possibly use the XFS filestreams allocator
- comment out the fsync() in the mythtv tree
- LD_PRELOAD libeatmydata for myth.
it turns out that writing a rather small amount of data and fsync()ing
(and repeating 1,000,000 times) makes the allocator cry a bit with
default settings. Especially if you were recording a few things at once.
--
Stewart Smith
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