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 1SSlkt-0000t0-2P for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 11 May 2012 09:03:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 582F5E0AC9 for ; Fri, 11 May 2012 09:03:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f181.google.com (mail-yx0-f181.google.com [209.85.213.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B92EE0BBD for ; Fri, 11 May 2012 08:33:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yenl3 with SMTP id l3so2525675yen.40 for ; Fri, 11 May 2012 01:33:56 -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=FRW1EnkGxf/alFJvpWRfGK41T14LkcKnHyFfT6VxjMo=; b=jiC/ZOVXuZMgRQQur+nVvoA7uBzm2JNslQ3E3eoPhzem8KQLLKIcfPAy/EttXUOaPo tOZuGuUNZtQ1mnlcvnPvdZ86+STmDe8d3Byfd7q3Ez4l79gDXIbuKSoABWvFWGNA/Htb gFlpmQC3SQvJU4q6GDeTrTxd3OVtIyZDM5XK/LyCto9aFefpQ0uyQ00HShVvN3+vUcsp Nn1tVWV18SJ9zXWTCAv4ClIw9cPJU0l8096xxWw6kHDeII9EGJvS4I4ZAgcGBB+m4aHA gLBAfXmZ7HVnMRn9ZmAfBn4mynJtPLJVq6OK/ozDWNgn+wgE4APvSNICOdB+u8gvfnFJ ymuw== 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 10.236.78.105 with SMTP id f69mr4750804yhe.15.1336725236580; Fri, 11 May 2012 01:33:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.236.109.20 with HTTP; Fri, 11 May 2012 01:33:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.236.109.20 with HTTP; Fri, 11 May 2012 01:33:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: 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 11:33:56 +0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Drivers For USB HDD From: Alex Alexander To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=20cf300fae31e3825a04bfbe98f7 X-Archives-Salt: cd03cc63-bea7-478b-9053-d2ded20899c7 X-Archives-Hash: c297a487bbab02d601f266f43577a2f5 --20cf300fae31e3825a04bfbe98f7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On May 10, 2012 7:34 PM, "Lie Ryan" 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 --20cf300fae31e3825a04bfbe98f7 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On May 10, 2012 7:34 PM, "Lie Ryan" <lie.1296@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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 tha= t fsck can save your drive without the journal.
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> Also, it probably won't hurt using ext4, given that ext4 had sever= al performance improvements over ext3. However, as Theodore T'so - the = primary developer of ext4 - said, ext4 is a stopgap until btrfs is ready. I= MO, 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. le= t it mature a bit first :)

Alex | wired

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