Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

[Florian Philipp <lists@binarywings.net>]

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Am 25.12.2012 16:41, schrieb Mark Knecht:
> Hi,
>    Merry Christmas to all.
> 
>    Upgrading an external USB2 drive at home this Christmas morning to
> 1TB for more video storage space. One large partition, non-raid, files
> are around 1GB. The drive holds only static video files that get
> written once and don't change or get erased. No MythTV stuff or
> anything like that.
> 
>    This disk reside on my main desktop machine and gets backed up
> every couple of days to another USB2 drive (FAT formatted
> unfortunately) which attaches to the TV.
> 
>    With the previous local drive I used ext3 and have had no problems.
> I'm just wondering if there's a better choice & why.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mark
> 

Ext4 offers better performance for large files. This is especially
notable when you remove them but other operations are faster, too. XFS
would be the traditional large-file choice but since the arrival of
Ext4, I don't see a point in putting up with its quirks anymore.

Regards,
Florian Philipp


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