Talk:TiVo Media File System
Add topicLatest comment: 18 years ago by AC in topic Here's MFS
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Here's MFS
[edit]Since there wasn't an article on Tivo MFS already, I wrote a stub article. Justification: an important FS, increasingly common, (millions of boxes), useful, and technically quite interesting.
What little I know comes from reading Dave Platt's old usenet posts, where he credits the MFS design to Jim Black, and notes that MFS doesn't pass its data through the Linux kernel, (the kernel's a huge media bottleneck for a 2000 era PowerPC CPU), uses 1 meg blocks, doesn't much fragment, works well in real time, and recovers quickly when the unit is unplugged.
It'd be nice to have more detail though, data structures, & whatnot, which data probably would have to come from studying, (as with NTFS). --AC (talk) 07:44, 1 May 2008 (UTC)