[mythtvnz] File system (XFS?) for new disk?

[criggie at criggie.dyndns.org]

On 21/12/10 20:50, David Moore wrote:
> I'm about to add a new 2TB disk to my system and I'm leaning towards XFS
> after quite a bit of googling. Doesn't seem like EXT4 is quite mature
> enough yet and seems that although EXT3 is very mature XFS is also quite
> mature but faster/better than EXT3 for large files. Anyone got any
> comments (pros or cons) about file systems for myth video storage? I'm
> using NTFS for video storage disks/partitions at the moment but only
> because I migrated from MediaPortal to MythTV. OS version is Ubuntu
> 10.04 LTS and myth version is 0.23+fixes.

At work we did extensive testing using various filesystems on external 
USB drives for backups, and found that XFS was good but it needed manual 
intervention with fsck more than JFS.

ext2/3 were okay but occasionally you'd have a 6 hour fsck specially if 
the USB was unplugged wrong.

You need a filesystem that deletes 1-10 GB files quickly, so that would 
be JFS or XFS.


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