[mythtvnz] favorite filesystem for large media drives?

mp3geek mp3geek at gmail.com
Tue Mar 31 12:43:10 BST 2009


I've been using btrfs (in the linux 2.6.29 kernel), and performs
nicely :) Transparent compression is also handy, no ill-effects using
compression, but still testing it out.

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Jim Tittsler <Jim at onnz.net> wrote:
> What is the current favorite for the filesystem for a large media drive
> on a MythTV backend?  For the last 3+ years I've been using JFS which
> seemed to be the favourite at that time, but I've just gotten a larger
> drive and am wondering if I should switch to something else this time.
>
> There seem to be lots of blog postings suggesting that ZFS "isn't there
> yet" for Linux.  Is it too early to move to ext4 (and does it behave
> well with largish files)?
>
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