>>>>> On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:59:28 -0700, Alex Mandel >>>>> <[email protected]> said:
AM> 2. More importantly what file system should we use? AM> ext3,ext4,XFS, etc? A bit late as I've been away, but: 1) don't use ext3 if you want to have large files and want to do much deleting. ext3 with large files is ok, I think, until you need to do delete operations then it's really slow. 2) ext4 should fix this, but that's already been discussed. F11 actually pseudo-suggests it now days, which means it's looking more and more like it's considered "stable". 3) MythTV, which makes extensive use of large files (a 1 hour show with good-quality settings for me is about 2.4G) suggests either XFS or JFS as the file system, and that's primarily because of delete operations. I've been using JFS and have been happy with it. JFS can do online resizing as well, which I've used to increase the size of video partitions live. 4) I agree, LVM rocks. Yes it does add a bit of overhead but it's far worth it to be able to dynamically make a partition larger (live even!) -- \ Wes Hardaker http://pontifications.hardakers.net / \_____ "In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than ________/ \_______ the soap, and much more difficult to find." _______/ \_________ -- Terry Pratchett ______________/ \__________________/ _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
