[mythtv-users] Advice on file systems for external drives

Jarod Wilson jarod at wilsonet.com
Wed Sep 15 19:53:23 UTC 2010


On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Paul <paul at paulhurley.co.uk> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've just had an external drive that was attached to my backend fail.  It
> did house two XFS partitions (one for recordings, one for mythvideo) and an
> ext3 partition for data on a 500Gb Maxtor basics external USB drive.  The
> Ext3 partition and one of the XFS partitions are unreadable., after being in
> use for about a year.
>
> Has anyone else seen similar issues with eternal drives and myth, or have
> any recomendation as to partition file systems for it's replacement.

Hm, I think the person that sold you that eternal drive was full of
it, they all fail eventually... ;)

Choice of file system on an external drive doesn't really matter if
the drive goes belly-up though. ext3 is probably the most reliable
thing out there (trading speed for draconian sanity), and that
partition is equally unreadable as the xfs one. My own backend box is
a combo of ext4 and xfs, iirc, though on internal drives in a raid
array. The one external drive I've got hooked up to a linux box is
esata, and formatted ext4, for whatever its worth.

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com


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