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 BCDE81381FB for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2012 00:45:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B33CB21C0A4; Thu, 27 Dec 2012 00:45:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vb0-f45.google.com (mail-vb0-f45.google.com [209.85.212.45]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3A74921C029 for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2012 00:44:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-vb0-f45.google.com with SMTP id p1so9405362vbi.32 for ; Wed, 26 Dec 2012 16:44:10 -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=DRovnWy7VLGkefpkrWbgjCxafvu4OGdYdM2Awjca5iE=; b=j7B4ityKBSmUHlwCwaQA26OHaL6YP4+lYbdwqP5qQbNT8xFy1PFGChxK/QipL/u4+B /9cWaKsmRYqZYEWYZDdf3pRZXuQfJYlG0pmZxb9+8T/KI38R7pkSY+fnf0ajmDhADc7C jD5Mwq1KWCYTpefgPTIB2t4QYcbQg5XmHF2HSX1FRDlv/bknqu9rJb197XNvQp+rshWi mbeQohX8zPSOHAnP6XjHOvkDpSxVAvzKLMkW3Oy/8nxnCpQe5bBSNWzAJIRvyd41nFGc hejnooNvhjeCBD3a5Cy/CTrVXnG3uv/eIZffYxU7IByJa3WniR2drurgc1pRREw1qLT0 6MZg== 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 10.52.16.17 with SMTP id b17mr38510606vdd.86.1356569050426; Wed, 26 Dec 2012 16:44:10 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.58.230.226 with HTTP; Wed, 26 Dec 2012 16:44:10 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2012 18:44:10 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library? From: Alecks Gates To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 91181b8e-07ab-4bd1-b5bd-c46c473ef375 X-Archives-Hash: b96571ffa83f6f97a7e5c6aed9792dce On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Mark Knecht 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