[mythtv-users] OT: Filesystems for recordings

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 10:50:38AM -0600, Allan Wilson wrote:
>    I am planning on rebuilding my mythbackend since I got in some new hardware
>    and I am planning on using LVM to span across a couple of drives. I have 4
>    or 5 video sources through PVR cards and firewire. I will have somewhere in
>    the neighborhood of 1 to 1.5 TB of storage. I was wondering what everyone
>    would recommend for using as the filesystem type for the LVM storage? Last
>    go around I was using XFS but I was wondering if there was something better
>    to use because of all the read/writes and large filesystem size. So what do
>    you think.

Check the archive; we did this last month.

I use XFS (though not on the root partition), some people prefer, I
think, JFS.

Cheers,
-- jra
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