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On Fri, 02 Apr 2010 10:28:43 -0500, Dale wrote: |
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> >> Then: I often transer videos from my DVB-T-receiver/recorder to my |
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> >> harddisk to cut out the advertising and to transcode the videos to |
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> >> somethings better than "ts" (transport streams), |
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> > These tend to be bigger, often in the GB range, so I'd use a separate |
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> > filesystem for them with XFS, which handles large files better in my |
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> He mentioned in one of the first few posts that he regularly has hard |
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> shutdowns. I took that as pulling the plug. The last bit of |
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> experience I had with XFS, it does not like that sort of thing to |
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> happen. Each time I had a hard shutdown, I had to reinstall the OS. |
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> Has XFS changed so that power loss is not s problem or should he not |
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> use this after all? |
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If the system crashes so hard that even Magic SysRq can't help, he should |
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be fixing that first, rather than trying to find a filesystem that likes |
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such shutdowns. Having said that XFS is much better now and I was |
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recommending using it for video files, which are hardly life and death. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great |
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ordeal of meeting me is another matter. - Sir Winston Churchill |
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(1874-1965) |
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