[mythtv-users] OT: Filesystems for recordings

[Andrew Lyon]

On 11/28/06, Brad DerManouelian <myth at dermanouelian.com> wrote:
> On Nov 28, 2006, at 8:51 AM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 10:50:38AM -0600, Allan Wilson 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.
> >
> > Check the archive; we did this last month.
> >
> > I use XFS (though not on the root partition), some people prefer, I
> > think, JFS.
>
> I use JFS and am quite happy with the performance. My only issue is
> if my box goes down unexpectedly (power out or something), it doesn't
> always come back clean. I need to run fsck.jfs before I can mount
> them again but I never have a problem after running it. I wish there
> was better support for checking for these errors on boot and
> automagically running fsck.jfs if needed.
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I use JFS on a 1.6tb (raw) raid 5, I decided to use jfs over xfs as I
had read about xfs + nfs problems, no problems so far and fsck is
fairly quick.

Andy