[mythtvnz] favorite filesystem for large media drives?

[Hadley Rich]

On Friday 27 March 2009 22:34:22 Steve Hodge wrote:
> I'm using xfs. It's been fine for the 3 or 4 years I've used it. I did try
> jfs but it would refuse to mount after a power cycle. I could have run an
> fsck on boot but I never got round to setting it up and decided just to go
> back to xfs last time I switched drives. I didn't notice any practical
> difference apart from that minor issue (which was probably just due to
> something I'd messed up in Gentoo).

Yeah JFS won't mount if it's dirty. Adding a 2 to the pass field (last one) in 
fstab will take care of the fsck before mount for you (if it's 0 fsck won't 
run).

> Frankly MythTV is not really demanding
> enough for the filesystem to be a factor these days, though some
> filesystems do take a while to delete large files (I think it was ext2/3
> that had this issue  -it's worked around by the "slow deletes" option you
> can set in myth setup).

Agreed.

hads
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