[mythtv] Which filesystem?

[Shawn Pearce]

Just to drop in here, I regularly use XFS under Linux to store
massive files (>8GB) on a 100 GB partition.  No trouble here!


Matt Zimmerman <mdz at debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:26:18AM -0800, 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.
> 
> What's your beef with ext3 exactly?  What is not TRUE about it?
> 
> I have no experience with XFS under Linux, but this is indeed exactly the
> sort of application for which XFS was intended (large multimedia files).
> That said, I still regularly hear reports of filesystem corruption from
> Linux/XFS users.
> 
> -- 
>  - mdz
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Shawn.