From: Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?
Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2012 23:33:32 +0700 [thread overview]
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On Dec 25, 2012 10:44 PM, "Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
For your usage, I think ext3 is the most suitable.
Do you have another fs in mind?
Rgds,
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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 [this message]
2012-12-25 17:07 ` Mark Knecht
2012-12-25 17:18 ` Michael Orlitzky
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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