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 5ED341381FB for ; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 19:46:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 973F721C025; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 19:46:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ye0-f180.google.com (mail-ye0-f180.google.com [209.85.213.180]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9860A21C009 for ; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 19:45:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ye0-f180.google.com with SMTP id m9so1360064yen.39 for ; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 11:45:20 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=2uYvDP98dE4mboaSrQ8UOtDMcn2BMfQhEfkLgKsCXJs=; b=NlD9pYDgME9uRuD/iXkNQu2EmtCoZJPp9+03S42b2/zZapZvYy+5HO3zXn7pUPlQEb 38C9mRoDrN/dj3sLeZ9ZEHzcdV9Vs2MQ/79Fxv5QmD5AcYJvQBBaJUu8fxPIBR7OVxq+ /RBMnGHSP8QtCAfUx0FyNNx2qwaiqdswsU1CYWSFCWK7mlpaVqA7LFdul2Lt5kz0kYIs zX7MySWc7dl6vNnaz5vavwbzOynnfH2umwWt9yu9xiFjEL5LnBbzy+a/tqGlW8zyyUyV VyYR6y1UxSnYP3j2uf5vVAnT8XFa0S6d19xZfTcm7C4uFSma00NbviF6PboN4m75Od+r OqoQ== X-Received: by 10.236.147.174 with SMTP id t34mr23723054yhj.70.1356464720734; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 11:45:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-94-18.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.94.18]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e39sm3917815ani.16.2012.12.25.11.45.18 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 25 Dec 2012 11:45:19 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <50DA024E.3070107@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2012 13:45:18 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0 SeaMonkey/2.14.1 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: <50D9D878.5030607@binarywings.net> <50D9DF30.1090609@gmail.com> <50D9F8D4.10000@binarywings.net> In-Reply-To: <50D9F8D4.10000@binarywings.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: f8f5677c-1795-4e12-944f-e0ae785b5ac5 X-Archives-Hash: 786685f8fd4ea9130d4e1bfd5183dc0b 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 :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!