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 269C11381FB for ; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 17:08:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8929F21C004; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 17:08:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qa0-f47.google.com (mail-qa0-f47.google.com [209.85.216.47]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9B721E0639 for ; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 17:07:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qa0-f47.google.com with SMTP id a19so7959294qad.13 for ; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 09:07:24 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=3qI322uwcEvuK47tRjwCvWsbYyqSvQv9V1TPMIEC3EU=; b=qjqwJyjHlVbT4Lhb0LlbZxmveKeTlbTtnhDquPXauJND2rkrEPj6+C2RUODhBWWbRn s3Z1Tm35Hwk8L30AzbUvXABtl2nbudgHDhOfZ7houUkmzdnxv9V94tzwIHaXLXcbCVbm vHC5jSK9Lad/Z7fI2F83gxGNJuNSW9OPTtkOS3Jny7cRPsHXaGXnc8nk9xK0KebigikP TdrsXKjmjARTxIhzHeQ5YWOahaHgOtVKaNtA0Z7acZJkgAmwozg52chiE1GhXHTcGcbu oh6435u3DD3c9w+47UobqnMZ6fLbe9MIom2Osr0lYkAVoBDOF9hLTUPbm6W7e2fDdbXr tK2A== 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 Received: by 10.49.104.108 with SMTP id gd12mr13825892qeb.37.1356455244746; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 09:07:24 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.229.186.132 with HTTP; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 09:07:24 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2012 09:07:24 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library? From: Mark Knecht To: Gentoo User Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 8bb7fece-fcd1-4d6f-9775-10fda3ffdd83 X-Archives-Hash: 06aadf4c5c7548c4cf8bcaf89daf4cc7 On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > On Dec 25, 2012 10:44 PM, "Mark Knecht" wrote: >> With the previous local drive I used ext3 and have had no problems. >> 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 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