[mythtv-users] file system question

[Timothy Waters]

OK, thanks for telling me that. I might simply try not using LVM on my next
install and just use FC5 or FC6. Thanks again!

On 11/8/06, jack snodgrass <mrlinuxgroups at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/8/06, Timothy Waters <timothy.waters at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I just had what I thought was a good install on Fedora Core 5 with an
> 80GB
> > drive and a 200GB drive. I had the /, boot, and swap on the 80,
> formatted
> > with the defaults, and used the remainder of the space on the 80 and the
> > whole 200 as one lvm volume formatted with XFS. One night it just died
> while
> > recording a show. The pc locked up and would never boot correctly after.
> Is
> > this fedora? Is this XFS crapping out on me? Should I use Fedora 6?
> Should I
> > just go back to Gentoo? I tried knoppmyth and it had everything on hda
> and /
> > partition was ext3. LAG LAG LAG. Was that ext3? Was that knoppmyth? It
> was
> > hella smooth with XFS on fedora. What can I do for an easy setup that
> > doesn't lag? I am thinking about trying Fedora 6, trying Knoppmyth with
> > reiserfs, or going back to Gentoo and use Reiser4. I just want an
> "install,
> > setup, and forget-it" system that doesn't lag. The difference with
> Fedora
> > 5/XFS and knoppmyth/ext3 was VERY noticeable in regards to smooth video
> > playback.
> >
>
> I have FC5 with ext3 boot/root partitions and XFS for my 'big' partitions.
> I have FC5 on 3 different boxes at my house/home office and all
> my boxes run 24/7.  I don't use LVM. I just use big partitions. One
> of my FC5 boxes has 2TB of XFS partions. None of my boxes
> ever lock up. ( they are all AMD64 - different speeds ) running x86_64
> objects. The box I do my dvd burning causes me greif every once
> in a while when I burn a dvd or rip a dvd. I have to force the dvd to
> eject some times and reboot before it will work again... don't think
> that is a FC5 issues... I get some weird i/o erros and dma errors.
> I'm going to move the dvd to a different IDE channel and see if
> it 'fixes' it.
>
> jack
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