[vdr] Re: Fragmented recordings on FAT32?

[Oliver Endriss <o.endriss@gmx.de>]

On Sunday 09 November 2003 00:41, Ari Huttunen wrote:
> I have a FAT32 partition for data so I can easily access it from both
> Mandrake 9.1
> and WinXP. I'm wondering why VDR recordings show up as quite heavily
> fragmented
> when checking it on WinXP?
> 
> I had a recently formatted FAT32 partition, almost empty, I recorded
> Philadelphia,
> and that ended up as 001.vdr (56 fragments), 002.vdr (56 fr.), 003.vdr
> (11 fr.)
> and index.vdr (106 fr.).
> 
> If I had to take a wild guess, I'd guess that VDR writes the 001.vdr and
> index.vdr alternatively, causing FAT32 to effectively interleave those
> two files on disk??

Correct.

> If this is indeed the problem, might I suggest  that index.vdr
> allocate new space in increments of one MB?

It's up to the OS/driver to manage space allocation on the disk.
If fragmentation matters, you should not use a file system which was
not designed to service concurrent writes in a reasonable way.

Oliver


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