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From: Michael Orlitzky <michael@orlitzky.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?
Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2012 12:18:28 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50D9DFE4.3020009@orlitzky.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK2H+ecq2u3=+6MsVB9E=BBaLXFiWtMniG3Z429TZROizEH5_w@mail.gmail.com>

On 12/25/2012 12:07 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info> wrote:
>>
>> On Dec 25, 2012 10:44 PM, "Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> <SNIP>
>>>    With the previous local drive I used ext3 and have had no problems.
>>> I'm just wondering if there's a better choice & why.
> <SNIP>
>>
>> For your usage, I think ext3 is the most suitable.
>>
>> Do you have another fs in mind?
> 
> Really, no. ext3 has been fine. I didn't see any real advantage to
> ext4 myself. Florian offers the removal argument but I've never
> removed files from this database. It's just movies so the systems just
> grows over time.
> 
> I suppose I wondered whether some other filesystem might get through
> an fsck _much_ faster.
> 

There's really no reason to use ext3 over ext4. Ext4 does have a faster
fsck.



  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-25 17:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-25 15:41 [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library? Mark Knecht
2012-12-25 16:33 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-12-25 17:07   ` Mark Knecht
2012-12-25 17:18     ` Michael Orlitzky [this message]
2012-12-25 17:56       ` Dale
2012-12-25 18:26       ` Mark Knecht
2012-12-25 18:58         ` Florian Philipp
2012-12-25 16:46 ` Florian Philipp
2012-12-25 17:15   ` Dale
2012-12-25 19:04     ` Florian Philipp
2012-12-25 19:45       ` Dale
2012-12-25 20:09 ` Marc Stürmer
2012-12-27  0:18 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-12-27 10:01   ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2012-12-27 13:57   ` Michael Hampicke
2012-12-27 22:48     ` Alan McKinnon
2013-01-02 13:04   ` Neil Bothwick
2013-01-02 13:38     ` Alan McKinnon
2013-01-02 14:08       ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2013-01-02 14:39         ` Neil Bothwick
2012-12-27  0:44 ` Alecks Gates

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