On Fri, 02 Apr 2010 10:28:43 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> Then: I often transer videos from my DVB-T-receiver/recorder to my > >> harddisk to cut out the advertising and to transcode the videos to > >> somethings better than "ts" (transport streams), > >> > > These tend to be bigger, often in the GB range, so I'd use a separate > > filesystem for them with XFS, which handles large files better in my
> He mentioned in one of the first few posts that he regularly has hard > shutdowns. I took that as pulling the plug. The last bit of > experience I had with XFS, it does not like that sort of thing to > happen. Each time I had a hard shutdown, I had to reinstall the OS. > Has XFS changed so that power loss is not s problem or should he not > use this after all? If the system crashes so hard that even Magic SysRq can't help, he should be fixing that first, rather than trying to find a filesystem that likes such shutdowns. Having said that XFS is much better now and I was recommending using it for video files, which are hardly life and death. -- Neil Bothwick I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
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