[mythtv-users] Filesystem of choice for recording drive?

[Saul]

On Wed, 21 Jan 2015 16:44:16 -0500
Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 2:33 PM, Neil Salstrom <salstrom at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Is XFS still the filesystem of choice or at this point is there a
> > better option?  Btrfs?  EXT4?
> 
> Generally, any of these would work and in practice, probably isn't
> going to make a noticeable difference.
> 
> If you're running you hardware close enough to max throughput capacity
> such that the choice of which (good) filesystem to use would make a
> noticeable difference (i.e. you have 27 tuners and 84 frontends),
> you'd probably be better off upgrading your hardware.

I do believe XFS is still the best, deleting big files quickly for
instance is one of strengths of XFS. And useful in MythTV, too.


-- 
Cheers, Saul