[mythtv-users] Raid5 with XFS

Fedor Pikus fpikus at gmail.com
Wed Mar 16 19:46:41 UTC 2011


On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Glen Dragon <gdragon at jetcom.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 1:08 PM, belcampo <belcampo at zonnet.nl> wrote:
>
>> > Is EXT4 finally to the place, from a performance standpoint, for MythTV
>> > that it's usable? EXT3's handling of large directory listings, and large
>> > file create/delete before the MythTV"slow delete" feature made it
>> unusable.
>>  From a short test, ext4 still is considerable slower on that as XFS. I
>> use xfs on software-raid which didn't ever give me troubles.
>> >
>>
>
> I've been running XFS on SW raid5 since 2005.  No problems here.  Latest
> video array is 6 TB.
>
>
I've had XFS on software raid5 and raid6 for several years as well, the
largest is 8TB but it's a new array, the 6TB one before that has several
years on it. Never any problems with the file system.

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