[mythtv] [offtopic] FileSystem to use for Myth

[Boyd II, Willy]

I too had serious corruption with reiserfs, but this was back before it was
even in the kernel or the userland tools were complete/working...  so even I
take that with a grain of salt.  Then again... all it takes it one instance
to piss off a guy enough to form a hard opinion :-D  I've had nothing but
good experience with ext3 so far.  And FWIW, the partition I'm using is on a
disk shared with WinXP, and the one partition holds all of RedHat9, so I'm
sure that's very much related to any slowdown I'm getting.

- Willy

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Bucksch [mailto:linux.news at bucksch.org]
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 4:08 PM
To: Development of mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv] [offtopic] FileSystem to use for Myth


Ben Bucksch wrote:

> I also had file corruption on XFS, but (from what I saw) only when the 
> filesystem was not shut down properly (hard crash, power off without 
> shutdown etc.).

These were only (some of) the files written in the (30?) seconds before 
the crash, so I guess XFS just doesn't play very well with write caches 
and crashes.

> FYI, I also heard reports (from friends' direct experience, mailing 
> lists) about much more severe file corruption, without good reason 
> like kernel crashs, so I don't know which file system to use.

Sorry, I meant "about much more severe file corruption *with reiserfs* 
(almost whole file system trashed)".