From: Bob Sanders <rsanders@sgi.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Drivers For USB HDD
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 09:46:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120510164632.GH14353@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGf7mVXeMC6x9neHo7qOZSCCG_FUxnuLJnsF30_C6acQ+Ui5ow@mail.gmail.com>
Lie Ryan, mused, then expounded:
> It's not a good idea to not do journalling for an external drive. No matter
> how careful you are, it is just a matter of when you will trip up your USB
> cable in the middle of a write; and then you should just pray that fsck can
> save your drive without the journal.
>
If there is concern about that, then the two filesystems to use would be
XFS and EXT3.
But, don't take my work for it, simply set up a bootable image with each
filesystem, create a bootable USB stick, boot it, then pull it without
unmounting it. Even pull power. With current >= 2.6.32 kernels those
will survive better than the others.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-10 18:05 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
2012-05-10 16:31 ` Lie Ryan
2012-05-10 16:46 ` Bob Sanders [this message]
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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