[mythtv-users] Is XFS the best choice?

[Jeremy Hunt]

On 2/11/07, Daniel Kristjansson <danielk at cuymedia.net> wrote:
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> This being said there are two gotchas with XFS. You should
> not use 4k stacks in the Linux kernel, which is the default.
> These 4k stacks are also a problem with other drivers, like
> the nVidia closed source drivers. The other gotcha is that
> AMD64 compiled kernels and XFS are known to be problematic.
> My development machine uses an AMD64 kernel and XFS and I
> haven't had any problems, but I wouldn't use that combo
> on a production box at the moment.
>

This is an important but often overlooked point. My Myth box using XFS
would crash constantly when recording 3 shows while watching a fourth,
basically heavy IO. After a bit of frustration I found the notes about
using 8k stack kernels when using XFS and made the switch. It's been 4
months now and no crashes since.

XFS is generally rock solid. I have at least 100 servers using it for
the root fs for the past few years with no issues.

-Jeremy