Hi, I decided to try the EXT3 filesystem on my Touch.
1) Rationale ----------- The main reason for upgrading from FAT to EXT3 was corruption. EXT3 is a journalled filesystem, so should be more robust to filesystem corruption. I just had a FAT filesystem corruption. I initially tought that keeping the hard drive as VFAT would make it easier to use the drive. In practice, the drive is always connected to the Touch, and I always update it over the network, so I don't need this extra flexibility. I was worried about the memory and performance impact of EXT3. VFAT is fairly simple. EXT3 adds many features, but on the other had it's been more optimised to Linux. Lastly, I was hopping that going to EXT3 would solve some of the rync issues that I had, like the non-synchronised timestamps. 2) Experience ------------- I connected the hard drive to my Linux system. I changed the partition type to Linux/83, and formatted as EXT3. I then copied all my music to the new partition. That was around 10k files, more than 200GB, it took a few hours. I reconnected the hard drive to the Touch. Scanning took between 30 and 35 min for 8.5k tracks, which is maybe a touch slower than it was with FAT (I've got a few more tracks since last full scan, and added more tags). Most things work as well as before, and the UI speed seem unchanged. Now rync does not need any workarounds : ------------------------------- rsync -avz --delete --progress --stats -i --perms --dry-run --include="*/" --include="*.flac" --include="*.FLAC" --include="albumartsmall.jpg" --exclude="*" ~music/Music-FLAC/ root@192.168.1.100:'sda1/Music-FLAC/' ------------------------------- On the other hand, I was stressing the system by running the VU meters on the Touch being the server, and the OOM killed the TinyLMS server due to running out of memory. But I think I've seen that before. I guess I'll need more time to see if it's as stable as I would like. I'll update in a few weeks... Have fun... Jean ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jean2's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33946 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82070 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
