On Saturday 20 November 2010 11:20:30 Mayuresh wrote: > I am looking to format a new HDD for use with Linux. The drive will be > mainly used as backup drive. > > I'd not like to go with btrfs as yet. > Would prefer to choose between ext3 and ext4. > > I have been using ext3 on all my systems till now and didn't face any > problems. But wondering whether I should choose ext4 over it just because > it's a higher version. > > I read some general information about the two. ext4 has larger volume > handling capabilities etc. which I am not looking for. > > On the contrary, there are some disadvantages mentioned like "potential > data loss" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4) which makes me a little > apprehensive about ext4: > > Can someone advise?
Use ext4. its faster that ext3 in general and has faster fsck. Mount option auto_da_alloc takes care of possibility of of data loss. Besides most data loss cases are reported on config files which are written, closed and renamed without an fsync. Thats a case not applicable for backup purposes. and I still recommend btrfs :) You can snapshot the data and access it at will. Something very important for backup drive. -- Regards Shridhar _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
