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

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info> wrote:
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> On Dec 25, 2012 10:44 PM, "Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>    With the previous local drive I used ext3 and have had no problems.
>> I'm just wondering if there's a better choice & why.
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> For your usage, I think ext3 is the most suitable.
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> 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. This machine gets shut down in the evening so
fsck operations happen roughly once a month. At times I need to get up
and running in the morning and get held up behind an fsck after so
many days.

Other than that I don't have any real issues, and presupposing that
ext3 would be my final choice I put it on and started rsyncing the
files, but if another answer is really better I have no problems with
blowing that away and starting again.

Thanks,
Mark