[mythtv-users] EXT3 problems?
John Kinsella
jlk at thrashyour.com
Tue May 27 16:49:17 EDT 2003
I noticed something about xfs subvolumes in the kernel that should lend
themselves nicely to media applications - anybody tinkered with them yet?
John
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 02:22:55PM -0700, 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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