My experience with MythTV annoyances

> > Again, not a Myth issue, there is a reason ext3 isn't one of the
> > recommended file systems.
>
> That's fair. One does have to do some reading between the lines at
> <URL:http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-24.html >, though, as I
> didn't ahead of time as thoroughly as I should've.
>

My question is when were these recommeded file systems tested? And do these
recommendations still apply? I have been a MythUser for 2 years and I remember this
part of docs have not changed at all in that time. Was this for 2.4 kernels or 2.6
kernels? As 2 years ago 2.6 kernels were pretty new. And why is reiserfs not
recommeded? We use reiserfs at work and we have over 5 TB of medical imaging data
stored on reiserfs. Are we going to have sudden doom?

I'm no file system expert but the way I understand it reiserfs is suppose to be good at handling a lot of smaller files. I use to use it for work (source code=lots of small files) but never saw any real benefit so I switched back to ext3.

Now JFS and XFS are suppose to be the opposite, good at handling (extra)large files. The delete issue is the most obvious example. When I first started playing with Mythtv I started with JFS but got burned pretty bad (may have been my mistake), so now I use XFS. No problems so far.

Here are some links with more interesting info:
http://linuxgazette.net/102/piszcz.html
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/388/print
http://lwn.net/2001/0830/a/jfs-comparison.php3

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