[mythtv-users] OT: Filesystems for recordings

[Steven Adeff]

On 11/28/06, Allan Wilson <allanwilson at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am planning on rebuilding my mythbackend since I got in some new hardware
> and I am planning on using LVM to span across a couple of drives. I have 4
> or 5 video sources through PVR cards and firewire. I will have somewhere in
> the neighborhood of 1 to 1.5 TB of storage. I was wondering what everyone
> would recommend for using as the filesystem type for the LVM storage? Last
> go around I was using XFS but I was wondering if there was something better
> to use because of all the read/writes and large filesystem size. So what do
> you think.

I like XFS for my recordings drive. I  use ext3 for my system drives
on all my systems as its fine for that work and handles power outages
well.  One thing you can do, if this partition will only be for large
files is to set the block size to 4K (mkfs.xfs -b size=4096).

-- 
Steve
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