Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FS for laptop

2007-12-22 Thread Mick
On Friday 21 December 2007, Stroller wrote: On 21 Dec 2007, at 02:43, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2007-12-20, Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20 Dec 2007, at 21:34, Mick wrote: ... Hmm, this article suggests that XFS is the best thing since sliced bread . . . especially for files

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FS for laptop

2007-12-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 05:45:20 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: I recently asked about filesystems on a MythTv mailing list. I saw nothing but praise for XFS. Maybe they're all just lucky. They also caution against using ReiserFS, which makes sense because it is a lot slower with large files.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FS for laptop

2007-12-21 Thread Stroller
On 21 Dec 2007, at 05:45, Grant Edwards wrote: swear by or just swear - when XFS again ate all the episodes ... I recently asked about filesystems on a MythTv mailing list. I saw nothing but praise for XFS. Maybe they're all just lucky. I haven't been reading MythTV-users for some

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FS for laptop

2007-12-21 Thread Stroller
On 21 Dec 2007, at 02:43, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2007-12-20, Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20 Dec 2007, at 21:34, Mick wrote: ... Hmm, this article suggests that XFS is the best thing since sliced bread . . . especially for files greater than 500MB. Not sure I've got many of these.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FS for laptop

2007-12-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:13:54 +, Stroller wrote: I haven't been reading MythTV-users for some time, but I do recall similar threads in the past year in which opinions dissenting from this were aired. If you mentioned the Earth being round on that list, dissenting views would be aired

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FS for laptop

2007-12-21 Thread Mick
On Friday 21 December 2007, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Freitag, 21. Dezember 2007, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2007-12-20, Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20 Dec 2007, at 21:34, Mick wrote: ... Hmm, this article suggests that XFS is the best thing since sliced bread . . .

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FS for laptop

2007-12-21 Thread Lee Davis
Stroller wrote: On 21 Dec 2007, at 05:45, Grant Edwards wrote: swear by or just swear - when XFS again ate all the episodes ... I recently asked about filesystems on a MythTv mailing list. I saw nothing but praise for XFS. Maybe they're all just lucky. I haven't been reading

[gentoo-user] Re: FS for laptop

2007-12-20 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-12-20, Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20 Dec 2007, at 21:34, Mick wrote: ... Hmm, this article suggests that XFS is the best thing since sliced bread . . . especially for files greater than 500MB. Not sure I've got many of these. A TV episode might well be 700meg. An

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FS for laptop

2007-12-20 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Freitag, 21. Dezember 2007, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2007-12-20, Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20 Dec 2007, at 21:34, Mick wrote: ... Hmm, this article suggests that XFS is the best thing since sliced bread . . . especially for files greater than 500MB. Not sure I've got many

[gentoo-user] Re: FS for laptop

2007-12-20 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-12-21, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Freitag, 21. Dezember 2007, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2007-12-20, Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20 Dec 2007, at 21:34, Mick wrote: ... Hmm, this article suggests that XFS is the best thing since sliced bread . . .