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 D2A6F1381FB for ; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 18:27:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4B254E06F3; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 18:27:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qa0-f41.google.com (mail-qa0-f41.google.com [209.85.216.41]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A758EE06C1 for ; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 18:26:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qa0-f41.google.com with SMTP id o19so8041143qap.0 for ; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 10:26:20 -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=kcZiqzsqd1WmbthYRg6s/8z/TCcZ23I3u0CNDsMliDI=; b=MGuOm4vLGObL4yFuAJlSlZpu2QYuGpiDm/0XpfHKyVT7Whq1CqVNq1tc45teFNJol+ QE/5ZB75kU7vYC+ZG9sPFBwUGunCtH8Ar+2EVwcVlhNEX6OK5IKPXd+W08c51TguMRJq DrPOUe2I/pwTlu132oh0GUIOk8o6UvKbO/laWjN6HNQs+ClJoM04r3CWgHpjKCJ+imLQ 2c07X46O9zcsLJVBGA0Ajz1ydaM7h/fZKO/j5YDcN1GquFtB4oJnow0BrWpz9o1afCPh qG4tlsFgJRJ4/+w6IPGBAQQxPnSPHPHNs9ky2GGgPPTI4yst1IGv6s6vp5vsnKj7X1a/ +zLw== 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 10.229.201.26 with SMTP id ey26mr2896884qcb.150.1356459980784; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 10:26:20 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.229.186.132 with HTTP; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 10:26:20 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <50D9DFE4.3020009@orlitzky.com> References: <50D9DFE4.3020009@orlitzky.com> Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2012 10:26:20 -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: bddc42ff-c564-4656-adf3-81efd6fa3d85 X-Archives-Hash: 0ee267a73e4dc0701b9369d005187e8d On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 12/25/2012 12:07 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> 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. >> > > There's really no reason to use ext3 over ext4. Ext4 does have a faster > fsck. > > If the graph here http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Improving_fsck_Speeds_in_Ext4 represents real speed improvement then it's likely worth it to me. The drive is doubling in size but initially the data isn't. (500GB getting rsync'ed to 1TB) As I have no immediate needs for the older drive I will give ext4 a try and just hang on to the old drive&data for a few months and see how it goes. I'd do that anyway in case the new drive has an infant mortality issue show up, but really the backup is the 1TB on the TV which is stable and in use for over a year with no smartctl issues. (yet) However that drive is FAT formatted so I don't really want to depend on it for anything long term. I wonder if there's anything to be said for changing block sizes, etc. away from whatever the defaults are? All of the files are currently between 350MB & 1.2GB so there's never going to be many more than 2K files on the drive and I'm assuming the rsync operation if file by file so fragmentation in the beginning, and probably over time, is going to be pretty low I think. Thanks for the info. Cheers, Mark