Best File System for very large partitions

[Asgorath]

I'm building a MythTV system. I want a file system that will not be corrupted easily, needs no maintenance, has a very large maxium partition size (>>2TB), needs no maintence, and allows for files >2GB

I was thinking XFS built with LVM. Any other opinions?

[Dew]

I agree with XFS, but have no experience with LVM.

[litkaj]

I use ext3 on LVM for my my file server (Openfiler). I looked into XFS but found that while it is corruption-resistant, if it does break, it's difficult to repair.

[unhappy_mage]

Really? Try xfs_repair. Worked just fine for me.

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[Dew]

I got some file corruption on my raid array when I screwed something up (Note, it was my fault, not XFS). I ended up loosing the most recent 10GB of data on the array, while it did recover it all, none of it was in a folder(001, 002, etc don't help) and some of the file names had random characters, so it was pointless for me to sort through the data. In the end, I just nuked the affected folders and retransfered the data.

Hell, one could say that my XFS partition is broken. xfs_fsr comes across some bad chunks and xfs_repair doesn't see any issues. This happened after I screwed up resizing the partition table using cfdisk(stupid 2TB limit). Fortunately, this has little impact on my data(did a hash of the entire 1.6TB of data, it all checks out except for about 10 mp3s). My next array will run XFS directly on the disk, no partitions.