[mythtvnz] Recording Drive Format type

[Wade Maxfield]

>On Thursday 11 October 2007 17:56:54 Neil Henwood wrote:
>>  I'm in the middle of setting up a replacement box for Myth, and wanted
>>  to ask on here what drive format is commonly used for the disks that
>>  store recordings.
>
>I use JFS personally presently, XFS is also popular. Now that myth can delete
>recordings without problems off ext3 filsystems there's no real reason not to
>use ext3.


I'll second using JFS.


>  > I am going to do is to have a disk dedicated to recordings and use LVM
>>  so that I can add and remove disk as needed.
>
>0.21 will be out soonish which has support for storage groups. Storage groups
>allow you to add and remove directories from your myth setup at your leisure.
>The advantage over LVM (apart from ease of setup) is that myth will find a
>recording in any storage group so you can move files around without database
>worries. They work really well.

Other big advantage with Storage Groups is it acts as a form of load 
balancing and can try to distribute the recordings across multiple 
drives to minimise the number of concurrent active recordings.  Great 
for people with multiple tuners and frontends.  8)

  - Wade