<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Hadley Rich <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hads@nice.net.nz">hads@nice.net.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Friday 27 March 2009 22:08:26 Jim Tittsler wrote:<br>
> What is the current favorite for the filesystem for a large media drive<br>
> on a MythTV backend?<br>
</div></blockquote></div><br>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). 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).<br>
<br>Cheers,<br>Steve<br>