[mythtv-users] EXT3 problems?

[Aaron Stewart]

Hrmm.. Seems like a Bad Idea (tm) to me. adding another filesystem that
needs supporting is nobody's idea of a cakewalk.  Kernel source
maintainers may not like it too much, either.

However, that being said, if you want to tackle it :).


On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 14:22, usenet at wingert.org wrote:
> It may be time to create a new FS for Media.  There is a reason that TiVo
> didn't use any of the standard FS's.
> 
> > 
> > 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
> > 
> > 
> > 
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