From: Frank Peters <frank.peters@comcast.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Drivers For USB HDD
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 11:42:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120510114217.faf95046.frank.peters@comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5ae537567759d0f555c5d23ed33329a2@junc.org>
On Thu, 10 May 2012 15:07:09 +0200
Benny Pedersen <me@junc.org> wrote:
>
> why not ext4 ?, imho ext4 is more caple of so big drives, specially on
> fsck, my own qnap ts 419 p+ supports both so it must be good :=)
>
My plan for the drive is long-term and portable storage of digital files.
The idea is basically write once, read many. Also, the drive has been
formatted into several smaller partitions. For this kind of use I don't
need the capabilities of ext4. In fact I don't even need a journal and
could probably use ext2 just as well.
Frank Peters
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-10 18:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-06 18:29 [gentoo-amd64] Drivers For USB HDD Frank Peters
2012-05-06 19:18 ` Stan Sander
2012-05-06 22:12 ` Frank Peters
2012-05-06 23:46 ` Paul Hartman
2012-05-07 10:51 ` Thomas Rösner
2012-05-07 13:34 ` Frank Peters
[not found] ` <CAK2H+edzy3S9fX86frKLEvYfLN1_dg03k5B3z7DfATbF501S_A@mail.gmail.com>
2012-05-07 15:21 ` Paul Hartman
2012-05-07 15:43 ` Mark Knecht
2012-05-07 21:18 ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-07 21:42 ` Mark Knecht
2012-05-07 21:45 ` Paul Hartman
2012-05-07 21:58 ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-08 10:56 ` Thomas Rösner
2012-05-10 2:49 ` Frank Peters
2012-05-10 13:07 ` Benny Pedersen
2012-05-10 15:30 ` Sylvain Alain
2012-05-10 15:42 ` Frank Peters [this message]
2012-05-10 16:31 ` Lie Ryan
2012-05-10 16:46 ` Bob Sanders
2012-05-11 0:22 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2012-05-11 8:33 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Alex Alexander
2012-05-11 11:20 ` Rich Freeman
2012-05-07 11:31 ` David Relson
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