Justin Schoeman wrote: > > 1) I use reserfs on all my partitions, but I have not benchmarked it > against ext2 (or any of the others). On my Athlon 600, I get 13MByte/s > to disk without any problems (system load is around 12%). The raw disk > can maintain 28MB/s, but I think the real bottleneck is the PCI bus, not > the fs. Say what? 32-bit 33mhz PCI has about 132 megabytes (not bits, bytes) per second bandwidth. A TV card needs at most 1/4th of that. If the raw i/o capability of your harddrive is 28MB/sec, it needs less than 1/4th of that. Even accounting for overhead, and assuming you are running at the hardware speeds of your capture card and hard disk, more than half of the pci bandwidth wouldn't get utilized. - Eric
