On Friday 02 April 2010 16:28:43 Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 21:09:30 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > >> Then: I often transer videos from my DVB-T-receiver/recorder to my > >> harddisk to cut out the advertising and to transcode the videos to > >> somethings better than "ts" (transport streams), > > > > These tend to be bigger, often in the GB range, so I'd use a separate > > filesystem for them with XFS, which handles large files better in my > > experience. > > He mentioned in one of the first few posts that he regularly has hard > shutdowns. I took that as pulling the plug. The last bit of experience > I had with XFS, it does not like that sort of thing to happen. Each > time I had a hard shutdown, I had to reinstall the OS. Has XFS changed > so that power loss is not s problem or should he not use this after all? > > Would hate for the OP to use XFS if it has not improved in that area.
XFS was ropey in its early days. I had to re-install a partition once too (on a laptop!). It is much more stable now (have not had a problem in the last 4+ years). reiserfs is absolutely bullet proof here, with hundreds of crashes on a machine that had bad memory (like twice or three times a day I would have to pull the plug, for months on end until I isolated the error on a memory module). reiser4 seems to be on a class of its own in terms of performance. Perhaps not as forgiving on hard crashes as the reiserfs? Not sure. It's early days yet on this machine, but I have only praises for it so far. I just hope they incorporate it in the kernel so that I don't have to manually patch it every time. This is just my 2c's - so YMMV. -- Regards, Mick
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