From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SSXik-0000a3-5O for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 May 2012 18:04:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8A645E0827 for ; Thu, 10 May 2012 18:04:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from qmta01.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta02.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.24]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9B25E0875 for ; Thu, 10 May 2012 15:42:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta23.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.74]) by qmta01.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 8FJu1j0181c6gX851FiQUo; Thu, 10 May 2012 15:42:24 +0000 Received: from ajax ([24.11.47.14]) by omta23.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 8FiP1j00w0JMh7c3jFiQJ1; Thu, 10 May 2012 15:42:24 +0000 Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 11:42:17 -0400 From: Frank Peters To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Drivers For USB HDD Message-Id: <20120510114217.faf95046.frank.peters@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <5ae537567759d0f555c5d23ed33329a2@junc.org> References: <20120506142920.8c2e0f06.frank.peters@comcast.net> <4FA7A94E.7010009@digital-trauma.de> <20120507093458.a9840e1f.frank.peters@comcast.net> <20120509224900.ebe16622.frank.peters@comcast.net> <5ae537567759d0f555c5d23ed33329a2@junc.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.4 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 6171552a-97d4-4b0f-9e0d-543fde7df332 X-Archives-Hash: 332ab1dde5f0f1e1eb22e9a8929554ad On Thu, 10 May 2012 15:07:09 +0200 Benny Pedersen 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