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On Dienstag 25 November 2008, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: |
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> > so use whatever you want, get a nice cheap dlt from ebay and let a |
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> > cronjob write to it. No 'lazy' problem. Very secure. |
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> I live in Brasil, and due to huge taxes, poor infrastructure and the |
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> currency exchange ratio, computer stuff is far more expensive than in |
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> the US. |
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it is more expensive in europe too ;) |
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> And then you have to factor that the average Brazilian is much |
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> poorer than the average US citizen. |
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and because of that I talked about dlt. A nice, used dlt 35/70 will work for |
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another couple of years, is not very expensive (anymore), and very robust. |
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> But anyway, I know I must make backups, but I still want a robust |
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> filesystem with good software support (such as data recovery |
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> utilities). Could you give me your suggestion for the safest |
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> filesystem for a desktop user that only uses 3,8G of his 54G root |
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> partition? I care about speed, but I think that my usage pattern does |
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> not stress the filesystem (if what Valerie Henson says is true). |
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xfs, reiserfs, ext3 all work fine. I would stay away from xfs with unstable |
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electricity. I would also stay away from jfs, because almost nobody uses it. |
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I have used reiserfs in the past, I am using reiser4 now. But I don't |
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recommend r4. It is working great for ME. But that doesn't mean that it is the |
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right choice for anybody else. |
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