[mythtv-users] ext4 vs XFS for mythbuntu

Larry Finger Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net
Fri Jan 23 15:27:34 UTC 2009


Mike Holden wrote:
> 
> I tried ext4 for a while on a pilot myth backend under Fedora 9 and had
> several corruption problems. Went back to other file systems (ext3,
> reiser, jfs) and have had no problems since.

Several major bugs in ext4 have been reported on the Linux Kernel
Mailing List in the past few days. I wouldn't use it for anything but
testing for at least two more kernel cycles (6-8 months).

Larry



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