epoch1970;692032 Wrote: 
> I'd say because when you crash or simply hit regular maintenance time,
> disk checking/repair would  take an immense time without journal. In
> the case of a crash I am sure. For regular maintenance I am not certain
> there is a difference. (w/ journal, checking a 6TB volume takes
> *hours*)
> EDIT: Unless you mount the drives as read-only. Could it be an option?
My current production LMS box has the media files on the same model
disk, ext4 with journal and no special tweaking of parameters.  With
this new box, I thought I'd mess with inodes, journal & such to try to
squeeze a little more disk space and performance from the drive and
reduce system overhead.  I'll populate the drive over the next day or
two, simulate a crash and precipitate a boot time fsck on it and report
back the results.  If, as you suspect, it takes many hours, I'll likely
blow away the partition and start over, keeping the journal.

Mounting RO would be a little cumbersome for my setup, given how
frequently I push new music and videos up to the system.


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