[mythtv-users] ext3fs for recordings file system when using slow deletes

Steven Adeff adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com
Mon Aug 28 23:15:25 UTC 2006


On 8/28/06, Phill Edwards <philledwards at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I used ext3 for a long time, and the last problem i had that finally
> > > led me to give it up wasn't slowdown when deleting files, it was
> > > performance while watching livetv.
> > >
> > > I'm sure there's a scientific reason as well, but when livetv
> > > programs switched at the half or top of the hour, you'd get a couple
> > > second pause.  That gets really annoying, so ymmv on the incremental
> > > delete patch being the ticket to ext3.
> > >
> > > Now i use xfs and haven't looked back.
>
> Any feedback from folks about jfs? This is apparently fast at
> everything (at least as fast as  xfs - no flame please!). So I assume
> it won't be a performance bottleneck - but what I want to know is
> whether it's stable and worth giving a run instead of xfs? My system
> lock ups are driving me insane and I'm wondering whether xfs could be
> the culprit.

there are quite a few JFS users on the list too, search the archives,
the whole xfs vs jfs vs ext3 vs reiser issue has come up a lot (esp.
around when the incremental delete feature was being realized).

-- 
Steve
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