Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Frank Peters <frank.peters@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Drivers For USB HDD
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 18:04:11
Message-Id: 20120510114217.faf95046.frank.peters@comcast.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Drivers For USB HDD by Benny Pedersen
1 On Thu, 10 May 2012 15:07:09 +0200
2 Benny Pedersen <me@××××.org> wrote:
3
4 >
5 > why not ext4 ?, imho ext4 is more caple of so big drives, specially on
6 > fsck, my own qnap ts 419 p+ supports both so it must be good :=)
7 >
8
9 My plan for the drive is long-term and portable storage of digital files.
10 The idea is basically write once, read many. Also, the drive has been
11 formatted into several smaller partitions. For this kind of use I don't
12 need the capabilities of ext4. In fact I don't even need a journal and
13 could probably use ext2 just as well.
14
15 Frank Peters

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