[mythtv-users] CentOS vs Fedora, RAID vs LVM

[Marc Tousignant]

Hi

2009/3/29 Bobby Gill <bobbygill at rogers.com>:
> Thanks for that. Currently I only have about 315GB used of my 730GB
> recordings LVM part. I am thinking I'll just plug in the external 1TB and
> move all over to it (leave it to an overnight mv *), and then switch over
to
> JFS. I do recall reading something about XFS being  dangerous if your box
> goes off in a power outage or something similar, I'm curious if that
applies
> to JFS as well?

JFS is journaled and fsck will check and fix error at boots if any.

The only time I lost files with JFS after a power outage is when my
drive got physically damage by the sudden loss of power.
I found some utilities that repaired most of them and I exchanged the
drive after that (thanks to LVM, replacing a drive was very simple)


>
> Also, with a few smaller files (and the many .png preview thumbnails) that
> will be in the recordings dir, do you find any issues with those (seeing
as
> JFS is champ for large files)??

JFS is an excellent all-rounder operating system ... That it's really
good at handling big files doesn't mean it's crap at handling small
ones :)
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I'm using XFS on RAID5 for my media partition.
4x500GB, only 1.4TB usable, but fast and fault tolerant.