On Mon, 23 Feb 2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > I hope someone can help me out a bit with this, I'm not an expert on > filesystems. > > I want to set up a small (~300G) drive for online backups, taken with > backintime from a nightly cron job. backintime uses rsync/hard links > to take the backups, so there will be a lot of links. The source of > the backup is mainly small files, and many of them don't change that > frequently. > > What I'm wondering is this: what should I set blocksize, inode count > and inode ratio etc to? Also, would ext4 be a good fs to choose, or > are there better alternatives?
I'm not a filesystem expert either, but as it seems this is regarding your personal desktop or server instead of a commercial server set up, high performance is not all that critical. So, I'd say: KISS. Ext4 is good enough. And better than most. Let it set the parameters. Why create problems by using a filesystem you're not familiar with? B -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150223085054.34098...@debian7.boseck208.net
