Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 21:09:30 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de 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 >> experience. >> >> > > 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? > > Would hate for the OP to use XFS if it has not improved in that area.
I am using XFS now for several years and I had only once an issue with it where I hit a known bug and I could restore the integrity with its own tools. And yes, I had all over the time the necessity to hard reset my box, because new nvidia drivers typically tend to freeze it from time to time. - Jörg
