[mythtv-users] Are there any practical advantages of ext4 forMythTV?

[Jerome Yuzyk]

On Friday 18 April 2008 17:00, Misty P wrote:
> Marc Barrett wrote:
> > I am putting together a new MythTV system, based on an
> > HDHR which I should be getting about the time that the
> > new Fedora 9 comes out.  I figured I'd give the new version
> > of Fedora a try.  If I have as many problems as I've had with
> > other new Fedora versions, though, I likely will end up
> > going with the new Ubuntu release, which is also coming
> > out RSN.
> >
> > Anyway, one of the new features of F9 is support for ext4.
> > I was wondering if there are many practical real-world
> > advantages of ext4 for MythTV.  My system isn't cutting-
> > edge at all, just a 3Ghz P4 with HT, and a single 350G
> > SATA hard drive.
>
> I would ask how often you like filling out bug reports with "EVERYTHING ON
> THE DISK JUST DISAPPEARED!"

Ya but, this doesn't answer the question.

See the Wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4  In reading it I don't 
see anything that I understand would benefit large-files multimedia systems 
except maybe reall-big ones, but I'm not much of an expert.