Re: Amateur Video Production Using Free Software and Linux

["Bernhard R. Erdmann" <be@berdmann.de>]

> http://www.linuxjournal.com//article.php?sid=5817
> 
> Amateur Video Production Using Free Software and Linux
> 
> (Linux Journal). In this Linux Journal article, the author looks at
> converting VHS tapes to DVDs, using free software of course. "Even
> when compressing a video stream before writing it, hard disk speed is
> important in digitizing video. It follows that the filesystem used is
> a large factor in performance. I have experimented with the ext2,
> ReiserFS and XFS filesystems. My experience is that capturing video to
> an XFS filesystem generally outperforms capturing to ext2- or
> ReiserFS-formatted disks. XFS has the additional benefit over ext2 of
> being a journaling filesystem."

XFS is told to be designed for these purposes.