[mythtv-users] Is XFS the best choice?

[Jim - MythTV]

I do not think its jfs causug yyour backends to hand.  my myth system is on 
a remote raid5 server (it was running red hat)  i tried tp upgrade it one 
day and things went a bit weird.  its still ran but yum and the like would 
no longer work.  (this is only my file server/web server)  I ran ext3 for a 
while but hated the slowness in deleting 1+gig files.  I switched to JFS and 
I have never had a problem.    (my file server was online for 4 year without 
a reboot.  I have since redone this machine with CentOS 4 .   Also my Myth 
frontend/backend attaches to this fileserver via NFS (as well as my windows 
machines).

I think there was something else causing your wows with the hangs.  I have 
been extremely happy with JFS


Jim

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brad DerManouelian" <myth at dermanouelian.com>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 10:00 AM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Is XFS the best choice?


On Feb 11, 2007, at 6:30 AM, Brian Wood wrote:

> On Feb 11, 2007, at 7:09 AM, Damian Surr wrote:
>
>>
>> So, I'm really not complaining that I've lost data. That's my bad
>> luck
>> and no one else's fault. I'm simply asking if XFS is up to the job of
>> being a dependable file system. I'd rather have slow deletes than
>> situations like this. I'm holding off on reinstalling Ubuntu and Myth
>> until I hear some feedback because I know I'll need to reboot in the
>> future, and there'll be a power cut at some point even if I don't.
>>
>
> There was a discussion of this here a while back, check the archives.
>
> Basically I think XFS tends to get flaky when the filesystem gets
> close to full, a common situation with Myth. JFS is supposed to be
> good at deleting large files and some have suggested it is the best
> system for Myth.

I used JFS for a while and I believe it was causing my backend to
bail out every day or two. I lived with waking up in the morning and
restarting the backend. When the file system completely crapped out
and I lost all my recordings, I reformatted as ext3 and it's been
solid ever since. I'm running a 64bit system which might have
something to do with it. I just wanted to post my experience in case
anyone else is having this issue as well and as a warning for someone
looking for a new file system.
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