On 2/6/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brian Wood</b> <<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="">On Feb 5, 2007, at 9:05 PM, Steve Hodge wrote:<div><div><span class="q" id="q_1109557788dd92d3_1"><br><blockquote type="cite">On 2/6/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brian Wood</b> <<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
beww@beww.org</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I wondered why you were using XFS. If it's the long erase time
<br>problem JFS will help that, as will the "slow erases" in Myth 0.20.<br></blockquote></div><br>Is there any reason not to use xfs? I've been using it without any issues - should I be considering switching to something else?
<br><br></blockquote></span></div>I really don't know too much about it. There were some complaints about it a while back but I think they were mostly problems when the filesystem started to get full, which you say you know about. Check the list archives if you want to look into that.
<br></div><div><br></div><div>I've read that the "conventional wisdom" is to use JFS but that was a magazine article that had some other questionable stuff in it so I'd investigate myself. The main thing was, I think, that JFS could delete large files quickly, less important now with the slow erases.
</div></div></blockquote></div><br>Ok, it just sounded like you were definitely against xfs. Certainly when I originally looked at Myth there wasn't really any word about what to use (other than that ext2 was problematic). From a quick look at the wiki and the install doc it still doesn't look like there is any sort of recommendation. I chose xfs because the delete performance was practically the same as jfs, but overall performance was better. ISTR at the time jfs was considered a little less mature on linux as well.
<br><br>I do let the filesystem fill up fairly regularly (as I don't use auto-expire). The only problem I've had with this is that it makes the frontend (and mythweb) fail to display the list of programs so that I can delete one. What I usually do is to move a file to another disk, then delete stuff as usual, and finally replace the file I moved. A little inconvenient but no real issue for me.
<br><br>Cheers,<br>Steve<br>