[mythtv-users] Is xfs flaky or is it my drive. Fedora Core 2, XFS, Myth .16 and .17

Ron Johnson ron.l.johnson at cox.net
Mon Mar 14 10:15:12 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 01:28 -0800, Rich Hall wrote:
> William reportedly babbled:
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> > [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of tdixon at dixbizserv.com
> > Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2005 8:31 PM
> > To: Discussion about mythtv
> > Subject: [mythtv-users] Is xfs flaky or is it my drive. Fedora Core 2,
> > XFS,Myth .16 and .17
> >
> >
> >
> > I have a myth box about 6 months old.  Fedora Core 2, new 200GB drive myth
> > .16 and .17.
> >
> > I have the 200GB drive in a volume group for expansion, and its setup XFS
> > for /video.  I run ok for a few days, then I'm watching something and it
> > stops in the middle, check the logs and I'm getting XFS errors.  Stop myth,
> > unmount, xfs_check.. problems get fixed and I run ok for a few days.  Then
> > the problem reoccur.
> >
> > So my questions to the great users of myth..
> >
> > - Are people using XFS and finding it generally stable or flaky like I find
> > it?
> > - What are people using as the file system for /video and are you
> > happy/unhappy?
> > - Do I need to pull this thing apart and do a surface test on the drive?
> > - Could there be some things I need to check if you had similiar issues and
> > resolved them?
> >
> > Thank you in advance!
> >
> > Tom Dixon
> > tdixon at dixbizserv.com
> >
> 
> I hear a lot of people swear that they have solid systems with xfs, and I am not
> saying that is not so, but here is some of my experience with it. Mind you this is a
> fairly large network cluster (webbot servers) and is growing constantly.. not a
> small home net.. your milage may vary.

What kernel?

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