Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT?} which fs on 1.8TB partition

2017-10-06 Thread Matthias Hanft
Grant Edwards wrote: > > 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT?} which fs on 1.8TB partition

2017-10-06 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 10:12 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2017-10-06, Rich Freeman 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,

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT?} which fs on 1.8TB partition

2017-10-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-10-06, Rich Freeman 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,