From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D2971381FB for ; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 18:59:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8EB3721C0AC; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 18:59:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com (out4-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B6FA921C005 for ; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 18:58:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.46]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id 500C1206BF for ; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 13:58:33 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend2.nyi.mail.srv.osa ([10.202.2.161]) by compute6.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 25 Dec 2012 13:58:33 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=binarywings.net; h=message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type; s=mesmtp; bh=hSwsM1Pz86Udz6YqQQBhDIGw 068=; b=kJ1EkyvcUrSUGI7PO3J6v/3JqiNJR3v7CG5CJu2NI3xcE7ixYQXHvI4+ gEBVgTkspG2cXml1XG+ewgcUcYbRg2FenvYpsmG2+3zHh7jy70pmE5RUvFwlr0oL Flu8caSDMt0i+lVXGimyX5n3lpV1S70OuRVm87bB8oigbfPacCg= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=message-id:date:from:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type; s=smtpout; bh=hSws M1Pz86Udz6YqQQBhDIGw068=; b=VTMrVDjanUrBg3kOlCjFzTy1GSADlP18ZRdk JgFAV54rx8xPBxc0AUPwcWi7uf5rMxPHcjk/Iv85+/wauIC4RVdmhS/RJMDlng+O XWImTSKCKuLl+0MiT9fLrnjyWkmEtExAt2eUpSkNgwvXZ0AQo5Rg07jQHu5p91EX ioLDBnM= X-Sasl-enc: /rRFeiU/IRQx2526Jl2POKvwOQR4Ys16+2ND+jyhPacL 1356461912 Received: from [192.168.5.18] (unknown [83.169.5.6]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id B82EA4827A0 for ; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 13:58:32 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <50D9F753.9090107@binarywings.net> Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2012 19:58:27 +0100 From: Florian Philipp User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.11) Gecko/20121130 Thunderbird/10.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library? References: <50D9DFE4.3020009@orlitzky.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.5 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigB69D0C1EC05A84C49E5315E7" X-Archives-Salt: 10a19ee7-e4e6-4c0d-a7fe-28b28adf156f X-Archives-Hash: d5aeedd9328a9ded937776145e2ffc94 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigB69D0C1EC05A84C49E5315E7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Am 25.12.2012 19:26, schrieb Mark Knecht: > On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> On 12/25/2012 12:07 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >>> On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Pandu Poluan wro= te: >>>> >>>> On Dec 25, 2012 10:44 PM, "Mark Knecht" wrote= : >>> >>>>> With the previous local drive I used ext3 and have had no proble= ms. >>>>> I'm just wondering if there's a better choice & why. >>> >>>> >>>> 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 jus= t >>> grows over time. >>> [...] >=20 > I wonder if there's anything to be said for changing block sizes, etc. > away from whatever the defaults are? All of the files are currently > between 350MB & 1.2GB so there's never going to be many more than 2K > files on the drive and I'm assuming the rsync operation if file by > file so fragmentation in the beginning, and probably over time, is > going to be pretty low I think. >=20 The default of 4k blocks is the largest possible and with big files there is no advantage in using smaller blocks. In fact, it could come back to bite you as it limits file sizes. I guess it also increases fsck times. Another issue I noticed is that it can cause terrible performance if the block size is smaller than the physical block size of the device. mke2fs warns when it detects this. 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