On 2009-03-07 21:30 +0100, Paul E Condon wrote: > I'd like some confirmation, or refutation, of some reasoning: > > I have a USB external hard drive. It came with vfat fs, but I want to > write an ext2/3 fs on it. All my internal HD are ext3, but should this > one be ext3, also?
That would be okay, unless you need to access it from systems that cannot read ext3. > Doesn't ext3 essentially write everything twice, > first to the journal, and then to the actual target location? No, unless you use the mount option data=journal. See the "Mount options for ext3" section in mount(8). > This is OK with an internal bus interface from the CPU to the HD, but > USB is not so fast. So I think I should not use ext3 for this HD. Is > this correct? AFAIK there are no special disadvantages in using ext3 for external hard disks. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
