Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Bob Sanders <rsanders@×××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Drivers For USB HDD
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 18:05:05
Message-Id: 20120510164632.GH14353@sgi.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Drivers For USB HDD by Lie Ryan
1 Lie Ryan, mused, then expounded:
2 > It's not a good idea to not do journalling for an external drive. No matter
3 > how careful you are, it is just a matter of when you will trip up your USB
4 > cable in the middle of a write; and then you should just pray that fsck can
5 > save your drive without the journal.
6 >
7
8 If there is concern about that, then the two filesystems to use would be
9 XFS and EXT3.
10
11 But, don't take my work for it, simply set up a bootable image with each
12 filesystem, create a bootable USB stick, boot it, then pull it without
13 unmounting it. Even pull power. With current >= 2.6.32 kernels those
14 will survive better than the others.