[mythtv-users] CentOS vs Fedora, RAID vs LVM

[Brian Wood]

On Wednesday 01 April 2009 11:52:00 Travis Tabbal wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:21 AM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have had the good success with xfs for 2 years of mythtv storage on
> > 7 of my storage groups. I was converting all the rest of my reiserfs
> > storage groups to xfs but now I will be making them all ext4. ext4 is
> > fast at large files like xfs and is not slow at deleting like ext3 or
> > reiserfs. ext4 is also fast at small files unlike xfs which tends to
> > be slow on operations with thousands of small files.
>
> Let us know how that goes. I'm still waiting for a bit on ext4 like I do
> with every new FS. They always seem to have a little bug here or there that
> causes data loss. I don't store any large amounts of small files on my XFS
> drives, just recordings. So I can afford to wait for now.

I used to wait 'till something was actually incorporated into the kernel, 
because I took that as an indication it was "mature" enough for me to use.

That philosophy seems to have changed though, making early adopters of new 
kernels essentially alpha or beta testers, making the kernel a marketing tool 
for new developments.

I'd like to see us go back to the "odd/even" model of kernel development, but 
that's not going to happen, since Linus considers reliability testing to 
be "boring".

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