[gentoo-user] Re: {OT?} which fs on 1.8TB partition

[Grant Edwards]

On 2017-10-06, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:

> 2.  Xfs: If you absolutely have to mess with a filesystem (especially
> for multimedia) this isn't a bad alternative.  You won't be able to
> shrink it, but for the most part it behaves a lot like ext4.

This was probably 10ish years ago, but I switched my multimedia
filesystems from ext* to xfs because deleting a large file (several
GB) on an ext filesystem would basically lock up my machine for tens
of seconds.  The seemed to be a known problem in the MythTv world and
the standard solution was to use xfs instead.  Sure enough, deleting
large files on xfs didn't cause problems.

* It was probably ext3 back then, so it's possible none of this
  applies to ext4.

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