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Florian Philipp wrote: |
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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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>>>> 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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>>> |
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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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>> 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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Mine only had a few seconds, it was ALL gone. I hit the ctrl C just |
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about the time the prompt came back. Well, I got to make new backups. |
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lol Almost 1Tb of stuff too. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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