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

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Florian Philipp wrote:
> Am 25.12.2012 18:15, schrieb Dale:
>> Florian Philipp wrote:
>>> 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
>>>
>>
>> For those who keep up with my adventures, I use ext4 for my home
>> directory which has a LOT of videos.  Some videos are small and some are
>> large but I can say this, it is really fast.  No fragmentation either. 
>>
>> I also use ext4 for my backup drive.  I accidentally deleted some stuff
>> one day and I can say this, it is VERY fast.  I'm just glad it was only
>> a backup. 
>>
>> I would second the idea for ext4.  It works great for me.
>>
>> Dale
>>
> On an amusing side note: I once was very happy that I happened to be
> running ext3 at work. I accidentally started `rm -rf ~/*` and after more
> than a minute I wondered why my disk was so busy ...
>
> Anyway, thanks to its slow speed, rm only had time to eat away my rather
> unimportant "archive" and "bin" directories and hasn't reached "doc"
> yet. Thankfully bash sorts its glob expansions alphabetically. :D
>
> Regards,
> Florian Philipp
>

Mine only had a few seconds, it was ALL gone.  I hit the ctrl C just
about the time the prompt came back.  Well, I got to make new backups. 
lol   Almost 1Tb of stuff too. 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

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