[mythtvnz] File System for RAID-5

[Criggie]

Consider doing none of that.

Consider a RAID1 for your system drives, and all the other drives in a
mythtv storage group.  Programs will be written to individual drives, and
if any one dies it will not take out the others.

If you raid5, then you loose a drive worth of storage, and remember its
only TV.  Not your critical personal data.

I suggest jfs because it has predictable fsck/mount times.  Something like
ext3 will someday jump at boot and demand a fsck taking hours and hours.


james at booths.net.nz wrote:
> Having just had a near-death experience with my non-RAID LVM system
> for Myth, I am about to convert everything to a RAID-5 setup (software
> RAID) with LVM on top. Before I go ahead does anyone have any
> recommendations on best choice of file system to use, given that it
> will be within LVM on RAID-5? I was going to go with XFS, but that
> cannot be shrunk, which (as I have found) can be very irritating when
> trying to reorganise your disks in an LVM. I know there are a bunch of
> hot new file systems out now, but I? wary of trying something new in
> an a setup like this.

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