[mythtv-users] Fastest file system

[Ali Asad Lotia]

a solution for people who are having problems with JFS partitions not
mounting after an unclean shutdown should change entries in /etc/fstab
to check the FS at boot, this normally solved the problem.

On 9/9/05, Michael Segulja <msegulja at lmdcs.com> wrote:
>  Asher Schaffer wrote: 
>  On 9/9/05, Stef Coene <stef.coene at docum.org> wrote:
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>  Hi,
> 
> Currently, I have a 70 GB partition formatted as ext3. It's a bit slow when
> deleting big files so I want to reformat it. But what's the best choice?
> XFS is good, but what's the file system check speed? Running fsck on my ext3
> file system takes forever...
> 
> 
> Stef
>  
>  I have heard of problems with XFS with any power outages, bad
> shutdowns, etc. I use JFS and have found it very fast (excellent
> large file deletes). I'm curious to other people's opinion of it,
> doesn't seem to get as much mention here as XFS or Reiser.
>  
>  
>  I have trouble with JFS on my recording partition any time the computer is
> rebooted uncleanly.  I have lots of problems with the kids hitting the reset
> button because they think it's fun! :-)  When the system comes back up, my
> JFS partitions don't mount.  I have to manually run jfs_fsck on them and
> then mount them manually or reboot.  If I do a clean shutdown it's fine. I'm
> wondering if anybody else is having this problem?  I'm running Fedora Core
> 3.
>  
>  The biggest issue with this is it happening when I don't know about it, and
> a scheduled recording starts.  It records to the root patition since my
> video partition isn't mounted, and runs out of space real fast and then
> crashes the OS!!
>  
>  Anyway, just wanted to put in my experience with JFS.  Other than that it
> seems very good and very fast on deletes to me as well.
>  
>  
>  Michael Segulja
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