Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 25.12.2012 18:15, schrieb Dale: >> Florian Philipp wrote: >>> Am 25.12.2012 16:41, schrieb Mark Knecht: >>>> 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 >>>> >>> Ext4 offers better performance for large files. This is especially >>> notable when you remove them but other operations are faster, too. XFS >>> would be the traditional large-file choice but since the arrival of >>> Ext4, I don't see a point in putting up with its quirks anymore. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Florian Philipp >>> >> >> For those who keep up with my adventures, I use ext4 for my home >> directory which has a LOT of videos. Some videos are small and some are >> large but I can say this, it is really fast. No fragmentation either. >> >> I also use ext4 for my backup drive. I accidentally deleted some stuff >> one day and I can say this, it is VERY fast. I'm just glad it was only >> a backup. >> >> I would second the idea for ext4. It works great for me. >> >> Dale >> > On an amusing side note: I once was very happy that I happened to be > running ext3 at work. I accidentally started `rm -rf ~/*` and after more > than a minute I wondered why my disk was so busy ... > > Anyway, thanks to its slow speed, rm only had time to eat away my rather > unimportant "archive" and "bin" directories and hasn't reached "doc" > yet. Thankfully bash sorts its glob expansions alphabetically. :D > > Regards, > Florian Philipp >
Mine only had a few seconds, it was ALL gone. I hit the ctrl C just about the time the prompt came back. Well, I got to make new backups. lol Almost 1Tb of stuff too. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
