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 1SSXjd-0000gc-Da for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 May 2012 18:05:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 07AC9E073E for ; Thu, 10 May 2012 18:05:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relay.sgi.com (relay2.sgi.com [192.48.179.30]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25D90E0B0C for ; Thu, 10 May 2012 16:46:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from conejo.engr.sgi.com (eng06.eng.rackable.com [10.202.12.106]) by relay2.corp.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79448304084 for ; Thu, 10 May 2012 09:46:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sgi.com (conejo.engr.sgi.com [10.202.12.106]) by conejo.engr.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F15D261E6051 for ; Thu, 10 May 2012 09:46:32 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 09:46:32 -0700 From: Bob Sanders To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Drivers For USB HDD Message-ID: <20120510164632.GH14353@sgi.com> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.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> <20120510114217.faf95046.frank.peters@comcast.net> 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=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: SGI, Fremont, California, U.S.A. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: df6adcd3-79c4-4cfb-b6a2-ba540d93360e X-Archives-Hash: be7b93156532c8c7c35becb21faa3ad9 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.