xawtv: Recording movies

[Bruce Marshall]

On Wednesday 18 February 2004 02:41 am, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> > <Shameless XFS plug>
> > XFS was designed for this sorta thing. ?It handles very large files
> > better than just about any other Unixy filesystem out there, and also
> > has special built in functionality for real-time applications (like
> > streaming media)
> > </Shameless XFS plug>
>
> Interesting. This I did not know... Can you point to any info directly
> related to this?

http://www.ncasia.com/ViewArt.cfm?Artid=19549&catid=8&subcat=79


"Conversely, XFS has a reputation for superior performance on large files. 
Daniel Khoo, research engineer for the Data Storage Institute in Singapore, 
finds that, ?XFS performs particularly well in our multimedia HyperSCSI 
testing, and gives us better frame per second rates during video streaming 
tests than Ext3.? In fact, XFS gave outstanding results on write-oriented 
workloads too, even on files as small as 64K. "

It's a good article comparing all the file systems but be aware that some of 
disadvantages of XFS mentioned (file deletions) have been fixed I think.

I've read a better article but I can't find it.  Written by someone in a video 
editing firm who just couldn't get the necessary performance from anything 
but XFS.


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