[mythtv-users] Is XFS the best choice?

[David Brodbeck]

Richard Freeman wrote:
> I too was using xfs rather heavily and then heard about the
> zeroing-out-files design issue.  Within a few weeks I had migrated
> everything over to ext3 (including myth) - it took a while since I
> didn't have a ton of spare space (but lvm2 helped).
>
> On an ultra-reliable server attached to UPS maybe the extra performance
> associated with xfs would be nice, but in a home PC I really don't want
> the hassle of rebuilding stuff if files are open when the lights go out.
>   

I guess I don't understand why this is a big deal...if the power goes
out while a file is open for writing, the file is going to be corrupt
anyway.  Having a truncated or partially garbage file instead of a
zeroed-out file doesn't seem to me like a big improvement.  The idea of
a journaled filesystem is to make sure that power outages don't result
in the filesystem becoming corrupt, not to protect the data in
individual files.