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

[Alecks Gates <alecks.g@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 9:41 AM, 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
>

I use ext4 for my videos, ranging from ~150 MB to ~20 GB.  It's very
painless and is included directly in the kernel.  I went on a very
long search for the "best" filesystem for videos and thought to myself
the only problem I was having was imaginary, ext4 is fine.


Alecks