meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
Hi,thanks for all the input to all who have answered ! :) I will try to characterize ("characterise" ?) what I plan to do with my TByte disk. My current drive is 200GByte and it becomes too small... I DONT LIKE (read: hate) to put CDs or DVDs into my drive, to mount it only to get access to documentations. CDs and DVDs as storage media in the sense of "backup" is ok, but (at least for me) as a replacement or extension to the harddisk it is much to slow (at least for me). So I have a lot of docs (specs of microcontrollers, howtos, programm and source code docs...etc) on my disk. This one part. Then: I often transer videos from my DVB-T-receiver/recorder to my harddisk to cut out the advertising and to transcode the videos to somethings better than "ts" (transport streams), This is another part. Then I plan to have two roots this time: One to experiment with and one "good and stable"-version which is used/updated/... "strictly as recommended". Filesizes and usage do vary here...take a look at your own roots ;))) Then I want something encrypted, either as a partition or as a files (carrying a encrypted fs), which I can copy to dvd and will be able to mount this dvd and use it without to have to copy the whole dvd first to harddisk before using it... Currently I am using encfs...(outdated?). What can I do use instead? This is for personal things like letters, photos, texts ... etc. Files vary from some kb up to about 2GByte (guessed). Most of them smaller than 200MByte Last thing: I have a lot iof copies of code from svn repositories because I like to have the "bleeding edge" of some projects (do you know the new Blender 2.50??? :O) This implies a lot of compile work. This will be the only case where files are created as often as read. Most files will be far more read than written... I have not planned a webserver, fileserve, extensive database usage (ok emerge and helpers a little of database usage...), experimental file creation and deletion...etcpp I would say...maximium file size will be around 4GB for all of that above, since everything above that I cannot backup onto DVDRWs.... May be this will give you a little "look inside my harddisk" ;) Any recommendations? keep hacking! ;) mcc
I'm no file system guru but that will help inform people on what you will be using it for. The people on this list that do use all sorts of different file systems can now offer better advice on what might best suite you. Someone a good while back had a huge video or something that was causing trouble and if I recall correctly it was because of some file system limitation or something to that effect.
Give the thread a day or so so that others can chime in with advice. Some people are in different time zones, some answer at home, some at work etc etc so it takes a bit to let the gurus catch up.
Dale :-) :-)
