[mythtv-users] EXT3 problems?

[Aran Cox]

On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 13:44, Brett Profitt wrote:
> > >From recent experience, I'd suggest that you stick with ext2/ext3 instead
> > of moving to xfs or reiserfs, for two reasons:
> 
> I second this.  I was experiencing exactly the same thing when I tried
> to use ext3, even after having made the adjustments suggested in the
> mailing list.  I am now using ext2 and am quite happy with it.  From my
> testing, though, I actually discovered fat32 seems to have worked best
> with my specific setup.  Not having seen any benchmarks that support
> this, it could be just a fluke.  The only reason I'm not using fat32
> right now is its inability to store files over 2 gigs...which isn't so
> much a problem if your system can handle using the MPEG4 codec.

I've been using reiserfs with good results.  I've yet to encounter an
issue where reiserfs was the culprit and have used it on a variety of
systems including MythTV video partitions.   At the very least I would
suggest some kind of journaled filesystem, who wants to wait for an fsck
to finish on a 200GB mythtv partition?

Aran