Hello Everyone, I have created a NAS for my home, meant to function primarily as a media center server. All is going well except I've noticed that there was some significant slowing over the past couple of weeks.
I pulled the whole thing off line, ran e2fsck, and found that it had become massively fragmented. I'm guessing this is due to my habit of renting 3-4 DVDs at a time, ripping them and then deleting them after they have been watched. Constantly writing and deleting GBs of data every day or so has made a mess of things. I really don't want to pull the whole thing offline and defrag manually, but an automated solution such as doing it via a cron job, wouldn't work well either, because I may want to watch a show at 2 am, 2pm or anytime in between, hence the reason for the rent, rip, delete philosophy. The thing is, it seems to me there should be a file system out there that auto defrags in the background during idle times. My media server mostly sits idle, and only needs to run a couple of hours each day. I'm not at all opposed to wiping out the exisiting OS and performing a fresh install with a new file system, but I'm not sure what to choose. Data Integrity is nice but not a huge issue, since it is only temp stores of DVDs I need to worry about. So I'm wondering if anyone has a suggestion for a good file system that can cope with my sporadic but huge amounts of access (sometimes 25% of the total space of the drive may be written to, read from and deleted in a 24 hour period.) Thanks in advance! Sincerely, Steve /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
