[mythtv-users] ZFS - what's the scoop?
Jay R. Ashworth
jra at baylink.com
Wed Oct 24 18:05:52 UTC 2007
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 10:53:48AM -0700, Peter Loron wrote:
> > For Peter: it doesn't hurt to try XFS. I was able to move to ext3 after
> > my problems without losing any data because I hadn't filled the array
> > beyond the capacity of a single drive on another computer on my LAN yet.
> > When I wasn't having kernel panics, XFS was all kinds of peachy
> > performance-wise.
>
> I've been running XFS on a single disk for video storage under FC3. So
> far just dandy. I'm going to give it a whirl when I put the array
> together. Nothing I'll have on there initially is critical (or probably
> irreplaceable, either), so if it goes up in smoke it will simply be
> irritating rather than a crisis.
Older XFS's -- in the general vicinity of SuSE 9.0, which was, I think,
2.4.9 or so -- had a bug in the driver that could cause such panics, as
I recall; it got cleared up pretty quickly... I *thought*.
Cheers,
-- jra
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