AW: Re: [mythtv-users] Filesystem questions

[verteiler at juro.at]

Sorry, I installed White Box Linux (which is a Fedora Core 1 distribution) and patched it to 2.4.22-1.2199.npt1_51.rhfc1.at.

The drives I have problems with run on a Promise ATA controller, so I assume that that is the problem. I have now installed a Fedora Core 2 on a different drive to see, whether that solves the xfs-problem. I can only hope, that I get the ivtv-driver to work on the 2.6 kernel.

Is anyone here using MythTV on a FC2 machine? If so did you use Jarod's how-to (using apt-get) or did you install via tars? Anything that I should watch out for?

Thanks for your help!

Greetings
Verteiler

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Von: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra at baylink.com>
Datum: 25.08.2004 18:16:56
An: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra at baylink.com>
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Betreff: Re: [mythtv-users] Filesystem questions

On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 01:26:59PM +0200, Verteiler wrote:
> I have formatted my harddrives using XFS (according to Jarod's  Howto) 
> but unfortunately something isn't working right (*duh*). These are the 
> steps I have taken:
> 1. create partition
> 2. format partition: mkfs -t xfs /dev/hdh1
> 3. check the partition: xfs-check /dev/hdh1
> Here I get a lot of errors (harddrive is new and I get the same on 
> different harddrives), so I
> 4. repair the partition: xfs-repair /dev/hdh1
> Now I get less errors, but executing 4. again does not reduce the errors 
> (it seems to multiply them). As I am quite paranoid (I have lost a few 
> important files on a corrupt partition all ready) I do not want to store 
> any data on a partition behaving this way - so I guess I have to switch 
> to a different filesystem.
> 
> Am I doing something wrong? If I switch to ReiserFS are there any 
> performance issues that I could run into?
> 
> Your thoughts and ideas are welcome ;)

You don't mention which OS you're on, but note that SuSE9.1's shipped
kernel has XFS problems.  If you've upgraded the kernel, you should be
fine; if your root is XFS, you shouldn't need to know this anyway
(since installing as XFS root requires that you find this out to
complete it).

Cheers,
-- jra
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