On 6/11/06, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:drescher0110-mythtv@yahoo.com">drescher0110-mythtv@yahoo.com</a></b> <<a href="mailto:drescher0110-mythtv@yahoo.com">drescher0110-mythtv@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<div>
<span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>> > Again, not a Myth issue, there is a reason ext3 isn't one of the
<br>> > recommended file systems.<br>><br>> That's fair. One does have to do some reading between the lines at<br>> <URL:<a href="http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-24.html">http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-24.html
</a>>, though, as I<br>> didn't ahead of time as thoroughly as I should've.<br>><br><br>My question is when were these recommeded file systems tested? And do these<br>recommendations still apply? I have been a MythUser for 2 years and I remember this
<br>part of docs have not changed at all in that time. Was this for 2.4 kernels or 2.6<br>kernels? As 2 years ago 2.6 kernels were pretty new. And why is reiserfs not<br>recommeded? We use reiserfs at work and we have over 5 TB of medical imaging data
<br>stored on reiserfs. Are we going to have sudden doom?</blockquote><div><br>I'm no file system expert but the way I understand it reiserfs is suppose to be good at handling a lot of smaller files. I use to use it for work (source code=lots of small files) but never saw any real benefit so I switched back to ext3.
<br><br>Now JFS and XFS are suppose to be the opposite, good at handling (extra)large files. The delete issue is the most obvious example. When I first started playing with Mythtv I started with JFS but got burned pretty bad (may have been my mistake), so now I use XFS. No problems so far.
<br><br>Here are some links with more interesting info:<br><a href="http://linuxgazette.net/102/piszcz.html">http://linuxgazette.net/102/piszcz.html</a><br><a href="http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/388/print">
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/388/print</a><br><a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0830/a/jfs-comparison.php3">http://lwn.net/2001/0830/a/jfs-comparison.php3</a><br></div><br></div>