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 1SSXjH-0000eT-BM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 May 2012 18:04:43 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9B854E0C01 for ; Thu, 10 May 2012 18:04:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vb0-f53.google.com (mail-vb0-f53.google.com [209.85.212.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48F74E0B6B for ; Thu, 10 May 2012 16:31:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vbbfc26 with SMTP id fc26so2083020vbb.40 for ; Thu, 10 May 2012 09:31:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=EYkzMB/bRQhoxDDk4AyWwKSKwClS0F4/xH1v3BlpNBc=; b=BrNtMbnLOtT6Hh9EZ+3E5TS0nyjbwIWhl04R7zVBUpJ2WXaq3OcKsGChzUeUakI+LY GumW7bM07HrSv+iuMBefgF4Ij3HfgoL+MDRJoHiP5uGfMJ7Z+/PF0KiF1++SrgtFBavI 6/E770Lt9JLyneVqoTcgpUIFGqDMCNCiWwD+NEucDMRz0sf9kiv/eeV30peLu1uW941e Itehs6mQJw12lFe2eF/qlMUApQBdHBUZgGOCardVWujwebk2nE/qtMAgN3thTyEMMhk0 MIDVTMz/JmnGqN3PYsL1HGabmv+wAnNuvyyuZnmbUv8aJILjz0U7Lwq/UBWDxdnuiwGX k9oA== 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 Received: by 10.52.180.7 with SMTP id dk7mr2470630vdc.25.1336667487775; Thu, 10 May 2012 09:31:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.52.168.74 with HTTP; Thu, 10 May 2012 09:31:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.52.168.74 with HTTP; Thu, 10 May 2012 09:31:27 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20120510114217.faf95046.frank.peters@comcast.net> 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> Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 02:31:27 +1000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Drivers For USB HDD From: Lie Ryan To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=bcaec5196509caabb004bfb1267f X-Archives-Salt: 7d253213-afdd-4fea-bbf4-d866558c527d X-Archives-Hash: 8a2be182140a223d65078b44b3c2e623 --bcaec5196509caabb004bfb1267f Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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. Also, it probably won't hurt using ext4, given that ext4 had several performance improvements over ext3. However, as Theodore T'so - the primary developer of ext4 - said, ext4 is a stopgap until btrfs is ready. IMO, from my experience of using btrfs some time ago, I'd say that btrfs is pretty much ready nowadays. --bcaec5196509caabb004bfb1267f Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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 y= our USB cable in the middle of a write; and then you should just pray that = fsck can save your drive without the journal.

Also, it probably won't hurt using ext4, given that ext4 had several= performance improvements over ext3. However, as Theodore T'so - the pr= imary developer of ext4 - said, ext4 is a stopgap until btrfs is ready. IMO= , from my experience of using btrfs some time ago, I'd say that btrfs i= s pretty much ready nowadays.

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