[mythtvnz] File System for RAID-5

[steve]

If you really do expect to be dynamically changing file system sizes in
the future, then I'd go reiserfs. Personally, I doubt that this is going
to happen, so I'd stick with good old ext3, unless you're going to have
thousands of files in a small number of directories... unlikely with a
myth box!

Personally, now that 1TB disks are now comfortably under $200 each, I
don't even bother with Raid 5 now, but use plain mirroring instead. 

Actually, that's not exactly true... with the cost of GB switches I
actually use a dedicated FreeNAS box and RAID 0+1 to get the best of all
worlds and hide my data where burglars ($deity forbid!) won't find it.

Steve.

On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 14:30 +1200, 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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