[mythtv-users] EXT3 on Software RAID5 optimization

David Brodbeck gull at gull.us
Thu Sep 4 21:31:17 UTC 2008


Florin Andrei wrote:
> r2d2 wrote:
>> trouble with XFS.
> 
> Nah. The only thing I've seen in practice is a higher chance of data 
> corruption if you pull the plug while the FS is being used. Granted, 
> this is something that can happen with any FS, but I think in my 
> experience XFS is a bit more fragile in that regard.

There also are, or were, some problems with XFS on systems with 4K 
stacks.  This only cropped up when it was stacked on top of both LVM and 
software RAID, however.



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