[mythtv] Which filesystem?

Chris Lack ixion at linuxpusher.com
Mon Jan 27 12:41:04 EST 2003


On Monday 27 January 2003 12:26 pm, Micah Morton wrote:
> I would honestly recommend XFS. Other than being WAY faster than
> ext2/ext3, it is a TRUE journaling file system rather than the band-aid of
> a file system ext3. :) Its solid, stable, and fast.  I would recommend it
> to anybody dealing at all with video or multimedia apps. SGI uses it for
> all of their graphics stations.
>

I've had a partition just up and disappear with xfs.  Something similar with 
reiserfs as well.  It's been a while now, but I wouldn't trust any vital 
information to anything but the ext family just yet.  It would probably be 
fine for a tmp style recordings directory though.  Micah do you have any 
links to benchmarks proving that XFS is "way" faster than ext3?  Not that I 
don't believe you, I'm just interested in seeing quantisized data on the 
subject.


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