[mythtv-users] Adding new 1 Terabyte Drive and Moving existingRecordings

[Frank Van Damme]

> If you really are going to move the videos anyway, then I second Kevin. It
> will be much easier in the long run. Plus, don't delete the files from the
> 500GB straight away. Make sure everything copied over first and works before
> deleting all of that data. After you have verified that the data is good
> then you can delete the files.
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> Also, if you really are going to use XFS and have never done so before…well
> just be careful and see if you can't make friends with someone who can help
> quickly first. There seem to me to be two distinct groups "XFS was nothing
> but problems!" people and "I have used it for years without incident!"
> people. Unfortunately I fall into the first one on several occasions. I
> don't want to completely discourage you from trying it out, just to be
> cautious and it never hurts to learn all you can ahead of time.


Do you do a lot of unclean shutdowns? XFS is built for high end
hardware (SGI) and buffers aggressively. So a crash can bring
considerable damage.

Not that I ever had a problem with it. It's a dream of an FS if you
want to, say, record a lord of the rings-length movie in high
definition (that's a big file).

-- 
Frank Van Damme

"Anyone can sit down and write some boring artistic song. Pop music is
the hardest shit to write."

- Britney Spears.