[mythtv-users] Is Btrfs a good choice for MythTV?

Richard Shaw hobbes1069 at gmail.com
Fri May 20 18:33:19 UTC 2011


I'm asking the question from a technical features and not from a "is
it ready for prime time?" standpoint.

The only Myth link I could find is:

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Btrfs

Which is really a stub and doesn't go over and pro's or con's.

It's getting pretty stable and unless there's a bad bug the filesystem
format/structure is fixed and only forward compatible changes will be
accepted. There's also limited fsck'ing although there's no link to
fsck.btrfs yet (a least in Fedora).

The current plan is to make it the default filesystem for Fedora 16
(about 6 months from now) so the devs must have some confidence in it
at this point.

Thanks,
Richard


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