Am Donnerstag, 1. April 2010 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de:
> 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.
Characterise if you’re in British domains, characterize if you are in the US.
> Last thing
On Saturday 03 April 2010 09:55:39 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Friday 02 April 2010 23:28:26 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 21:50:09 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > > > Assuming your controller supports hotplugging, assuming you
> > > > have a drive available to plug in, assuming
On Friday 02 April 2010 23:28:26 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 21:50:09 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > > Assuming your controller supports hotplugging, assuming you have a
> > > drive available to plug in, assuming you are able to physically add a
> > > drive.
> >
> > sata can
On Friday 02 April 2010 14:45:29 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Freitag 02 April 2010, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> > Neil Bothwick [10-04-02 14:08]:
> > > On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 13:04:53 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> > > > only to be sure to have understood everything correctly:
> > > > Sugge
On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 18:01:50 -0400, stosss wrote:
> I have been following this thread. I decided to research to do my own
> comparisons of ext3, ext4, JFS and XFS.
Why have you ignored reiser3 and reiser4? The former in particular is
widely used.
--
Neil Bothwick
Pepperami. Its a bit of an ani
stosss [10-04-03 05:31]:
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 1:47 PM, wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I googled down some - often fairly outdated - texts about "the
> > best filesystem" fpr a Linux box. Other texts focussed on
> > uses, which do not aplly to me: Fileservers, webservers, database
> > machines e
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Paul Hartman
wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Paul Hartman
>> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann
>>> wrote:
On Freitag 02 April 2010, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Paul Hartman
> wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann
>> wrote:
>>> On Freitag 02 April 2010, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 20:40:54 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 1:47 PM, wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I googled down some - often fairly outdated - texts about "the
> best filesystem" fpr a Linux box. Other texts focussed on
> uses, which do not aplly to me: Fileservers, webservers, database
> machines etc.
>
> Wnat I want is a fast and stable (
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Paul Hartman
wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann
> wrote:
>> On Freitag 02 April 2010, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 20:40:54 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>>> > > LVM and RAID are completely different animals. No one su
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann
wrote:
> On Freitag 02 April 2010, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 20:40:54 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>> > > LVM and RAID are completely different animals. No one suggested using
>> > > it for any reasons of data security, ru
On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 21:50:09 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > Assuming your controller supports hotplugging, assuming you have a
> > drive available to plug in, assuming you are able to physically add a
> > drive.
>
> sata can hotplug. all ahci controlers can hotplug and all sata drives
>
On Freitag 02 April 2010, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 20:40:54 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > > LVM and RAID are completely different animals. No one suggested using
> > > it for any reasons of data security, running LVM on a RAID array
> > > gives both security and flexibilit
On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 20:40:54 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > LVM and RAID are completely different animals. No one suggested using
> > it for any reasons of data security, running LVM on a RAID array
> > gives both security and flexibility. As for being able to add space
> > to RAID, you can
On Freitag 02 April 2010, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 14:45:29 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > seriously lvm sounds nice. But it isn't. It easily breaks.
>
> Do you have something to back that up?
>
> > You want a save setup? Go raid5 or raid6. As a bonus - you can get more
>
On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 14:45:29 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> seriously lvm sounds nice. But it isn't. It easily breaks.
Do you have something to back that up?
> You want a save setup? Go raid5 or raid6. As a bonus - you can get more
> space if you need it by just adding another disk. And you
On Fri, 02 Apr 2010 10:28:43 -0500, Dale wrote:
> >> 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),
> >>
> > These tend to be bigger, often in t
Mick wrote:
On Friday 02 April 2010 16:28:43 Dale wrote:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 21:09:30 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
Then: I often transer videos from my DVB-T-receiver/recorder
to my
harddisk to cut out the advertising and to transcode
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:47 AM, wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I googled down some - often fairly outdated - texts about "the
> best filesystem" fpr a Linux box. Other texts focussed on
> uses, which do not aplly to me: Fileservers, webservers, database
> machines etc.
>
> Wnat I want is a fast and stable
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:09 PM, wrote:
> [ ... snip ... ]
>
> So I have a lot of docs (specs of microcontrollers, howtos, programm
> and source code docs...etc) on my disk.
> This one part.
I've seen that nobody mentioned JFS yet... :)
In some benchmarks the best FS for most tasks is
On Friday 02 April 2010 16:28:43 Dale wrote:
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 21:09:30 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> >> 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 bet
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 21:09:30 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
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),
These tend to be b
On Freitag 02 April 2010, William Kenworthy wrote:
> My experience was with raid 0, while the higher raid redundancy will
> shift the reliability figures back the other way.
wrong. Raid0 is meant for 0 redudancy and reduced reliability for more
performance.
Before you start talking about Raid a
On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 14:45 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Freitag 02 April 2010, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> > Neil Bothwick [10-04-02 14:08]:
> > > On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 13:04:53 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> > > > only to be sure to have understood everything correctly:
> > > > Sug
On Freitag 02 April 2010, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> Neil Bothwick [10-04-02 14:08]:
> > On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 13:04:53 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> > > only to be sure to have understood everything correctly:
> > > Suggestion is to create for example one root partition and a swap
> > > part
Neil Bothwick [10-04-02 14:08]:
> On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 13:04:53 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
>
> > only to be sure to have understood everything correctly:
> > Suggestion is to create for example one root partition and a swap
> > partion. And I will create on big "rest of the disk"-partition.
On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 13:04:53 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> only to be sure to have understood everything correctly:
> Suggestion is to create for example one root partition and a swap
> partion. And I will create on big "rest of the disk"-partition.
> The last one will be subdivided with LVM
On Fri, 02 Apr 2010 11:20:02 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem:
[snip]
>A question to LVM: As much as I know, LVM combines several partition
>to one big partition, and if one partition fails, at least other
>others of that volume are dam
Neil Bothwick [10-04-02 12:48]:
> On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 11:11:30 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
>
> > A question to LVM: As much as I know, LVM combines several partition
> > to one big partition, and if one partition fails, at least other
> > others of that volume are damaged, too.
>
> It can b
On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 11:11:30 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> A question to LVM: As much as I know, LVM combines several partition
> to one big partition, and if one partition fails, at least other
> others of that volume are damaged, too.
It can be used that way, but you have only one disk, so
William Kenworthy [10-04-02 11:32]:
> On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 11:11 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> > Neil Bothwick [10-04-02 10:52]:
> > > On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 21:09:30 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> > >
> > > > So I have a lot of docs (specs of microcontrollers, howtos, programm
> > > > a
On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 11:11 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> Neil Bothwick [10-04-02 10:52]:
> > On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 21:09:30 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> >
> > > So I have a lot of docs (specs of microcontrollers, howtos, programm
> > > and source code docs...etc) on my disk.
> > > This
Neil Bothwick [10-04-02 10:52]:
> On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 21:09:30 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
>
> > So I have a lot of docs (specs of microcontrollers, howtos, programm
> > and source code docs...etc) on my disk.
> > This one part.
>
> Those are fairly normal files.
>
> > Then: I often transe
On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 21:09:30 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> So I have a lot of docs (specs of microcontrollers, howtos, programm
> and source code docs...etc) on my disk.
> This one part.
Those are fairly normal files.
> Then: I often transer videos from my DVB-T-receiver/recorder to my
> ha
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
Dale [10-04-01 20:36]:
> meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I googled down some - often fairly outdated - texts about "the
> >best filesystem" fpr a Linux box. Other texts focussed on
> >uses, which do not aplly to me: Fileservers, webservers, database
> >machines etc.
> >
> >Wnat I want is
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
Hi,
I googled down some - often fairly outdated - texts about "the
best filesystem" fpr a Linux box. Other texts focussed on
uses, which do not aplly to me: Fileservers, webservers, database
machines etc.
Wnat I want is a fast and stable (!) filesystem for a desktop
Its kind of tricky question :) and if You look closely You could find
som flames about it :P
Iam using ReiserFS for my root and xfs for the rest and testing btrfs.
I never gets any problem with "broken partition table" etc. (and i
experienced several "quick power downs").
But reiserfs have some p
I have been using reiserfs ( 3, not 4 ) for several years and have found it
to recover without any problems from "dirty" shutdowns, at most I've had to
use reiserfstools to fix the filesystem. I had no such luck with ext3,
although as a journalled filesystem in theory it should do the same. I have
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