[mythtv] [offtopic] FileSystem to use for Myth

Jeremy Hanmer jeremy at hq.newdream.net
Mon Sep 15 17:38:17 EDT 2003


I can tell you from personal experience that XFS goes apeshit when a
device fills up.  9/10 times that my home box runs out of disk space,
the entire file tree disappears (ls returns 0 files) and upon reboot
(after a safe unmount), MANY files will either be gone totally or badly
corrupted.

On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 14:02, Ben Bucksch wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> 
> > I have experience receiving plenty of bug reports from XFS users when 
> > it corrupts their files. Does that count?
> 
> Yes, if you can qualify that. Any references/URLs?
> 
> 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.).
> 
> 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.
> 
> Ben
> 
> 
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