Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem

[meino.cramer@gmx.de]

Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> [10-04-02 10:52]:
> On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 21:09:30 +0200, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> 
> > So I have a lot of docs (specs of microcontrollers, howtos, programm
> > and source code docs...etc) on my disk.
> > This one part.
> 
> Those are fairly normal files.
> 
> > Then: I often transer videos from my DVB-T-receiver/recorder to my
> > harddisk to cut out the advertising and to transcode the videos to
> > somethings better than "ts" (transport streams),
> 
> These tend to be bigger, often in the GB range, so I'd use a separate
> filesystem for them with XFS, which handles large files better in my
> experience.
> 
> > Then I want something encrypted, either as a partition or as a files
> > (carrying a encrypted fs), which I can copy to dvd and will be able 
> > to mount this dvd and use it without to have to copy the whole dvd
> > first to harddisk before using it...
> > Currently I am using encfs...(outdated?). What can I do use instead?
> 
> ecryptfs does much the same job as encfs but is in the kernel.
> 
> I'd say something like reiser3 for most areas and an XFS filesystem for
> the videos would be a good starting point. I would strongly recommend you
> use LVM and only set up volumes for what you need. That gives you extra
> space to play with and even experiment with different filesystems to see
> which work for you.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Neil Bothwick
> 
> The facts, although interesting, are irrelevant.

Hi Neil,

Thank you for your help! :)

A question to LVM: As much as I know, LVM combines several partition
to one big partition, and if one partition fails, at least other
others of that volume are damaged, too.
What is the advantage of using LVM and several small partitions
instead of one in the size of the sum of the others and not using
LVM?

Best regards,
mcc




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