[mythtv-users] Is Btrfs a good choice for MythTV?

[John P Poet]

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 12:40 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm asking the question from a technical features and not from a "is
>> it ready for prime time?" standpoint.
>>
>> The only Myth link I could find is:
>>
>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Btrfs
>>
>> Which is really a stub and doesn't go over and pro's or con's.
>>
>> It's getting pretty stable and unless there's a bad bug the filesystem
>> format/structure is fixed and only forward compatible changes will be
>> accepted. There's also limited fsck'ing although there's no link to
>> fsck.btrfs yet (a least in Fedora).
>>
>> The current plan is to make it the default filesystem for Fedora 16
>> (about 6 months from now) so the devs must have some confidence in it
>> at this point.
>
> I would say not at this time. The utility tools are no where near
> complete and the format has changed several times. I would currently
> use zfs over btrfs. Ext4 over both of these.

Does ext4 have a defrag tool now?

I have a couple of very large storage groups for the video files, and
it can get pretty fragmented.  I keep it under control with xfs'
xfs_fsr tool


John
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