[mythtvnz] File System for RAID-5

[Jonathan Hoskin]

ext3 has always worked for me when not using xfs.

Also, if you have a bit more money to burn, why not consider RAID-10 over
RAID-5? RAID-5 comes from a time when disks were expensive and n+1
redundancy was a lot cheaper than n+n. Nowadays n+n on desktop drives is
cheap enough, and software RAID-10 is going to be way faster than RAID-5.


On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 2:30 PM, <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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