[vdr] Re: Choice of Filesystem for VDR

[Alfred Zastrow <vdr@zastrow4u.de>]

Matthias Schniedermeyer schrieb:

> > I do hope that this is not too off topic to discuss here, but I'd really 
> > like to know what experiences you have with the various filesystems and vdr.
>
> For my VDR-boxes i have used ext2 for (nearly) 4 years now.
>
> With "normal" uptimes of > 0,5year i can live with a fsck about every 6
> month. (And "temporary" recording hdds have only 80GB. And because it is
> normaly(tm) empty even when it has to do a fsck, it doesn't take very
> long)
Uuhh. That is not very economic. Assuming a power consumption of 150W 
your normal uptime of a 0,5 year costs about 85 € per anno.  :-)))

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> Or don't use a journaling filesystem. When you computer crashed while
> recording, the recording(s) (is/are) garbage with or without a
> journaling filesystem.
That's wrong.

Alfred