[mythtv-users] Suggestions for a partition structure

Karl Newman newmank1 at asme.org
Tue Oct 22 04:51:04 UTC 2013


On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 9:04 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com>wrote:

> On 10/21/2013 11:25 PM, Karl Newman wrote:
>
>> so I ended up going back to mdadm with a simple BTRFS file system on
>> top.
>>
>
> One of the core features of BTRFS is pervasive checksumming of data.
> Combined with internal redundancy, you have automatic scrubbing and
> repair of damaged files. That doesn't work if you externally handle
> redundancy through MDADM or hardware RAID.
>

Interesting. I wanted it to work on the bare partitions, but it just wasn't
mature. I was really looking at the high level features--ability to grow
(and shrink), fast delete, efficient handling of large files, subvolumes,
etc. Possibly ZFS may have been a better choice, but its license conflict
with GPL means it will never be part of the Linux kernel, and I wanted
something that I could use with a normal Linux boot CD (most of which
aren't going to have ZFS support either as a module or FUSE).

Karl
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