> My NAS (DNS-323, FW=1.04) is using ext2. If it were up to me I'd use > ext3 because of the journaling. This was original thought as well. I know there are gobs of other journaling system out tehre, but I imagine ext3 is likely the most common & stable in today's world....but I could be on crack. I supposes it would have the advantage of not getting fragmented as well.
The data would be a mixture of documents & media files at this point...but who knows. > Using ext2 or ext3 allows you to retain all the file metadata that a windows > share needs as well as have the data that xNIX needs to share. > It's fairly straight forward to build a SAMBA server around a Linux formated > drive. Do I need to do anything special for storing my WIndows profiles or anything or just build teh share & away I go? I imagine it is that simple... most things in Linux are...LOL! ;-) > <pimp mode="ON"> > Get a copy of "LINUX Networking Cookbook" by Carla Schroder > One of the single best books on tactical management of Linux > environments I've found. > <pimp mode="OFF"> I iwll have to look into this and see if I can get clearence from the wife. > This is a completely different can. If you make the problem slightly > more generic you wind up having to arbitrate 'N' of 'M' updates. ie. > you make a change to the 'slave' copy on your flash drive, your wife > makes a change on her 'slave' copy and the master is updated via > automated processing. How do you correctly merge the result? Tough > problem! > The best (and it's not great) solution I've seen is for every system to > mark the changed copy 'dirty' and date/time stamp the change. When > syncing the changes are applied in sequence where possible. > The desired behaviour will probably change by application though. If > you edit a friends contact info and your wife deletes the same contact > info. When you merge with the master do you "Modify, then Delete" or > "Delete and have an invalid Modify" or "Delete and implicitly add the > Modified data"? I see what you mean with all of this. I have been trying to wrap my head around it all. I would like start with a databse on the USB stcik copied from the network...then when I got home copy it back and mount it. I assume that would be the proper way? On other software though.. is that type of sharing possible of would it take individual set up on each platform? _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
