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Am 25.12.2012 18:15, schrieb Dale: |
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> Florian Philipp wrote: |
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>> Am 25.12.2012 16:41, schrieb Mark Knecht: |
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>>> Hi, |
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>>> Merry Christmas to all. |
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>>> |
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>>> Upgrading an external USB2 drive at home this Christmas morning to |
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>>> 1TB for more video storage space. One large partition, non-raid, files |
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>>> are around 1GB. The drive holds only static video files that get |
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>>> written once and don't change or get erased. No MythTV stuff or |
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>>> anything like that. |
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>>> |
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>>> This disk reside on my main desktop machine and gets backed up |
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>>> every couple of days to another USB2 drive (FAT formatted |
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>>> unfortunately) which attaches to the TV. |
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>>> |
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>>> With the previous local drive I used ext3 and have had no problems. |
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>>> I'm just wondering if there's a better choice & why. |
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>>> |
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>>> Cheers, |
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>>> Mark |
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>>> |
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>> Ext4 offers better performance for large files. This is especially |
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>> notable when you remove them but other operations are faster, too. XFS |
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>> would be the traditional large-file choice but since the arrival of |
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>> Ext4, I don't see a point in putting up with its quirks anymore. |
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>> Regards, |
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>> Florian Philipp |
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>> |
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> For those who keep up with my adventures, I use ext4 for my home |
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> directory which has a LOT of videos. Some videos are small and some are |
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> large but I can say this, it is really fast. No fragmentation either. |
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> I also use ext4 for my backup drive. I accidentally deleted some stuff |
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> one day and I can say this, it is VERY fast. I'm just glad it was only |
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> a backup. |
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> I would second the idea for ext4. It works great for me. |
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> |
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> Dale |
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On an amusing side note: I once was very happy that I happened to be |
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running ext3 at work. I accidentally started `rm -rf ~/*` and after more |
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than a minute I wondered why my disk was so busy ... |
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Anyway, thanks to its slow speed, rm only had time to eat away my rather |
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unimportant "archive" and "bin" directories and hasn't reached "doc" |
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yet. Thankfully bash sorts its glob expansions alphabetically. :D |
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Regards, |
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Florian Philipp |
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