On 2017-10-06, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 2. Xfs: If you absolutely have to mess with a filesystem (especially
> for multimedia) this isn't a bad alternative. You won't be able to
> shrink it, but for the most part it behaves a lot like ext4.
This was probably 10ish years ago, but I switched my multimedia
filesystems from ext* to xfs because deleting a large file (several
GB) on an ext filesystem would basically lock up my machine for tens
of seconds. The seemed to be a known problem in the MythTv world and
the standard solution was to use xfs instead. Sure enough, deleting
large files on xfs didn't cause problems.
* It was probably ext3 back then, so it's possible none of this
applies to ext4.
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