I am trying to install MythTV and thought that just for the fun of it (
:-) ) I would read the documentation which comes for it.
I quote directly from the doco. about which file systems to use when
installing MythTV (because it can generate large files):
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Filesystems
MythTV creates large files, many in excess of 4GB. You must use a 64 or
128 bit filesystem. These will allow
you to create large files. Filesystems known to have problems with large
files are FAT (all versions), and
CPU Type and
Speed
10
Installing and using MythTV
ReiserFS (versions 3 and 4). The ext3 filesystem can be made to work but
requires great care in how you
format and mount the volume.
Because MythTV creates very large files, a filesystem that does well at
deleting large files is important.
Numerous benchmarks show that XFS and JFS do very well at this task. You
are strongly encouraged to
consider one of these for your MythTV filesystem. JFS is the absolute
best at deletion, so you may want to try
it if XFS gives you problems. MythTV .20 and above also incorporates a
"slow delete" feature, which
progressively shrinks the file rather than attempting to delete it all
at once, so if you're more comfortable with
a filesystem such as ext3 (whose delete performance for large files
isn't that good) you may use it rather than
one of the known-good high-performance file systems. There are other
ramifications to using XFS and JFS -
neither offer the opportunity to shrink a filesystem; they may only be
expanded.
NOTE: You must not use ReiserFS v3 for your recordings. You will
get corrupted recordings if you do.
Because of the size of the MythTV files, it may be useful to plan for
future expansion right from the
beginning. If your case and power supply have the capacity for
additional hard drives, read through the LVM
and Advanced Partition Formatting sections for some pointers.
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I found the reference/comments about ext3 and Reiserfs, both used as
'defaults' in openSuse, interesting to say the least. Because I am
installing (ie, trying to) on a 'test' computer, I have formatted the
HDs with XFS and installed v10.3 on this 'test' system. (v10.3 with all
the apps. I installed is running VERY well on XFS.)
BTW, JFS is NOT available in v10.3.
Cheers.
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