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

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>

I have noticed the fsck is fast here too, faster than reiserfs anyway. 
It seems ext4 is pretty fast with everything, at least in my eye.  I
also found that ext4 has a defrag tool.  It rarely finds any fragments
but at least it is available. 

Dale

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