[mythtv-users] OT: Filesystems for recordings

[Santiago Almenara]

 Brian:

> Personally I'm using a RAID-0 array with ext-3, I guess I like to live dangerously :-) Deleting any 
> files of 1 hour or less doesn't seem to cause trouble but larger files will cause buffer overflows 
> when the delete operation blocks and put glitches in any recording happening at the time. 
> Hasn't been a problem for me though.

One thing I don't like about xfs and LVM, it's doesn't let me resize down partitions so I can free a phisical volume.

Can I use ext-3 with LVM for MythTV without problems ?? The larger files I've had are 10 GB - 12  GB (I don't record any HD contents).