[mythtv-users] First Stab at a Shopping List

[David Frascone]

*bit* == *big* for those of us who can't type today.

-Dave

David Frascone wrote:
> Dan Brown wrote:
>   
>> Quoting David Frascone <dave at frascone.com>:
>>
>>   
>>     
>>> Oh -- another stupid question:  What is the most popular distro to use?
>>> (Assuming that the most popular distro would be the one that would have
>>> the least amount of issues -- and fastest updates)
>>>     
>>>       
>> Jarod Wilson's very thorough HOWTO for Fedora has already been pointed  
>> out.  Another popular distro is Ubuntu, and there's some good  
>> documentation available at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV on  
>> the subject.  I was able to follow that doco to install Myth on my Mac  
>> Mini with very little difficulty.
>>
>>   
>>     
> Since I'm a Suse fan, who has recently been moving to Ubuntu, I'll go there.
>
> While I'm on trolling posts:
>
> I'm going to do a smallish OS install, then make a big partition (I'll 
> mess with LVM crap after the POC) with the *best* filesystem on it.
>
>  From the recent flame wars it looks like XFS and JFS are the best, and 
> I see no complaints about JFS, so I'm assuming I should make my *bit* 
> partition(s) JFS, no?
>
> And -- assuming I do add another disk, and assuming I use LVM, will JFS 
> strech out if I increase the underlying disk?
>
> -Dave
>
>   

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David Frascone

                         He who laughs last is S-L-O-W.