Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FS for laptop

2007-12-22 Thread Mick
On Friday 21 December 2007, Stroller wrote: > On 21 Dec 2007, at 02:43, Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2007-12-20, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 20 Dec 2007, at 21:34, Mick wrote: > >>> ... > >>> Hmm, this article suggests that XFS is the best thing since sliced > >>> bread . . . > >>> e

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FS for laptop

2007-12-21 Thread Lee Davis
Stroller wrote: > > On 21 Dec 2007, at 05:45, Grant Edwards wrote: >>> >>> swear by or just swear - when XFS again ate all the episodes ... >> >> I recently asked about filesystems on a MythTv mailing list. I >> saw nothing but praise for XFS. Maybe they're all just lucky. > > I haven't bee

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FS for laptop

2007-12-21 Thread Mick
On Friday 21 December 2007, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Freitag, 21. Dezember 2007, Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2007-12-20, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 20 Dec 2007, at 21:34, Mick wrote: > > >> ... > > >> Hmm, this article suggests that XFS is the best thing since sliced > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FS for laptop

2007-12-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:13:54 +, Stroller wrote: > I haven't been reading MythTV-users for some time, but I do recall > similar threads in the past year in which opinions dissenting from > this were aired. If you mentioned the Earth being round on that list, dissenting views would be aire

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FS for laptop

2007-12-21 Thread Stroller
On 21 Dec 2007, at 02:43, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2007-12-20, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 20 Dec 2007, at 21:34, Mick wrote: ... Hmm, this article suggests that XFS is the best thing since sliced bread . . . especially for files greater than 500MB. Not sure I've got many of these.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FS for laptop

2007-12-21 Thread Stroller
On 21 Dec 2007, at 05:45, Grant Edwards wrote: swear by or just swear - when XFS again ate all the episodes ... I recently asked about filesystems on a MythTv mailing list. I saw nothing but praise for XFS. Maybe they're all just lucky. I haven't been reading MythTV-users for some time

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FS for laptop

2007-12-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 05:45:20 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > I recently asked about filesystems on a MythTv mailing list. I > saw nothing but praise for XFS. Maybe they're all just lucky. They also caution against using ReiserFS, which makes sense because it is a lot slower with large files.

[gentoo-user] Re: FS for laptop

2007-12-20 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-12-21, Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Freitag, 21. Dezember 2007, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2007-12-20, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On 20 Dec 2007, at 21:34, Mick wrote: >> >> ... >> >> Hmm, this article suggests that XFS is the best thing since sliced >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FS for laptop

2007-12-20 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Freitag, 21. Dezember 2007, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2007-12-20, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 20 Dec 2007, at 21:34, Mick wrote: > >> ... > >> Hmm, this article suggests that XFS is the best thing since sliced > >> bread . . . > >> especially for files greater than 500MB. Not sur

[gentoo-user] Re: FS for laptop

2007-12-20 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-12-20, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 20 Dec 2007, at 21:34, Mick wrote: >> ... >> Hmm, this article suggests that XFS is the best thing since sliced >> bread . . . >> especially for files greater than 500MB. Not sure I've got many of >> these. > > A TV episode might well b