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On May 10, 2012 7:34 PM, "Lie Ryan" <lie.1296@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> It's not a good idea to not do journalling for an external drive. No |
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matter how careful you are, it is just a matter of when you will trip up |
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your USB cable in the middle of a write; and then you should just pray that |
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fsck can save your drive without the journal. |
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> Also, it probably won't hurt using ext4, given that ext4 had several |
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performance improvements over ext3. However, as Theodore T'so - the primary |
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developer of ext4 - said, ext4 is a stopgap until btrfs is ready. IMO, from |
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my experience of using btrfs some time ago, I'd say that btrfs is pretty |
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much ready nowadays. |
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for a system drive maybe, but I wouldn't trust my data on it yet. let it |
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mature a bit first :) |
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Alex | wired |
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