On May 10, 2012 7:34 PM, "Lie Ryan" <lie.1296@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

for a system drive maybe, but I wouldn't trust my data on it yet. let it
mature a bit first :)

Alex | wired