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Jack wrote: |
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> On 8/25/22 08:52, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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>> On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 8:43 AM Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>> I've already got data on the drive now with the default settings so it |
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>>> is to late for the moment however, I expect to need to add drives |
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>>> later. Keep in mind, I use LVM which means I grow file systems quite |
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>>> often by adding drives. I don't know if that grows inodes or not. I |
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>>> suspect it does somehow. |
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>> It does not. It just means that if you want to reformat it you have |
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>> to reformat all the drives in the LVM logical volume. :) |
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> As I remember, if you enlarge a logical volume by adding a new |
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> physical volume, you then have to expand the filesystem to use that |
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> additional space. Looking at resize2fs, it does increase the number |
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> of inodes, but only linearly in proportion to the amount of increased |
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> size. I don't see any way to tell it to decrease, or even just not |
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> increase, the number of inodes. |
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> Related question - how much space would you actually save by |
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> decreasing the number of inodes by 90%? Enough for one or two more |
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> videos? |
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Now I have to admit, that is a question I have too. That's why I was |
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wondering about tools that give info on inodes and such. It could be it |
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just is not worth the effort to change the defaults. Most videos are |
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either pushing 1GB or around 2GBs, depending on length of video. If it |
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only saves a few 100MBs or even a few GBs, it won't really help much. |
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The difference just isn't large enough. If I was storing small files, |
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then it would but then I'd need those inodes as well. Sort of a catch |
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22 there. |
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At the moment, I just don't know enough about whether I should change |
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the defaults or not. It's one of those, it's not really broke so it may |
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not need fixing. |
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TLDR: I will say this tho, I'm loving this fast internet even tho my |
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VPN seems to slow things down some. Still, it is a LOT faster than DSL |
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by a huge margin. Some things download so fast, if I blink, I miss it. |
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When I do eix-sync, it is mostly processing things here with the CPU or |
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organizing files. Downloading the files tends to be limited by the |
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server on the other end. Downloading things like libreoffice, Firefox |
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etc takes seconds. I use tail -f to watch it and it goes by really |
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fast. My last update was quite large and I think it took less than 2 |
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minutes. |
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I'll be getting a new hard drive to add pretty soon. :-D |
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While at it, can I move the drives on LVM to another system without |
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having to copy anything? Just physically move the drives and LVM see |
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them correctly on the new system? I may try to build a small computer |
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for a NAS soon. I'm not sure what is the least I can buy that will |
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perform well. I need to look into small mobos to see what options I |
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have. I mostly need a CPU to handle moving files, memory to pass it |
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through and lots of SATA ports. I figure a fast card for most SATA ports. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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