[mythtv-users] OS & FS Choices? (was: Re-doing my backend)

[David Frascone]

Ok - Flamebait time - my disks should be here today, so it's time to get
cracking.
1) Which Distro?  I'm a linux head, so I can make anything work, but I'd
prefer the most "popular" os.  Doing google searches for "<distro name>
mythtv", and looking at the counts, it looks like ubuntu is most popular,
followed by Fedora.  Does this mesh with your opinions?  I'm leaning toward
ubuntu

2) Which FS for video?  I know ext3 is out.  But, my existing ubuntu backend
has trouble with mounting XFS after a power failure.  The fsck can't figure
out which fsck to use.  It's broken in Fiesty -- maybe it's working in
Hoary.  I'm leaning toward trying JFS, and falling back to XFS if JFS has
issues.

Thanks in advance,

*Flame retardant suit on*

-Dave

On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 12:00 AM, David Frascone <frasconebulk at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Feb 9, 2008 7:43 PM, R. G. Newbury <newbury at mandamus.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > I didn't say anything about raid. I'm just talking about having a
> > relatively small disk dedicated to the OS only. It has some partitioning
> > to separate things which should/must be saved from operational things
> > which can be overwritten if a new OS version is installed. For a myth
> > box, the database is the most important thing, plus copies of the setup
> > so we don't have to fight to restore things...and that is actually not a
> > very large list of files. And there is no advantage in 'raid'ing the OS
> > disk.
> >
> > All recorded programs go on other disk(s). With storage groups, you can
> > add storage disks basically at will. Since these are 'just' tv programs,
> > I don't think that a raid array is warranted *for this sort of data*.
> > Some people do use raid storage, but that presents its own problems.
> >
> >
> Sorry, I meant to respond to Dan, who wrote:
>
>
> >
> >
> > Yes. Don't use LVM -- it's overkill. You could lay it out like this:
> >
> > disk1, 40GB:
> > p1  /boot   2G   ext2
> > p2  /swap   2G   swap
> > p3  /       20G  RAID-1 mirror
> > p4  /extra  24G  ext3  store your database files here, use as
> >                      temp space
> >
> > disk2, 500GB:
> >
> > p1  /       20G  RAID-1 mirror
> > p2  /video0 480G myth storage
> >
> > For database performance, you want it on a disk separate from
> > your video storage. But you want to back it up nightly to the
> > root partition, so you can recover if needed. A quick cron
> > script for that, run nightly as mythtv:
> >
> >
>
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