Re: External HDD Format?

["Robert G. (Doc) Savage" <dsavage@peaknet.net>]

I second Matt's ext4 recommendation, and I'll take it one step further.
If really huge files are involved, USB2 at 480 Mb/s can be a major
bottleneck. If possible, upgrade that connection to eSATA.

Don't get hung up between eSATA 1 (1.5 Gb/s) and eSATA 2 (3.0 Gb/s).
Only the latest exotic (e.g. Intel) solid state disks need eSATA 2. With
rotating hard drives, eSATA 1 should be more than enough.

--Doc

On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 12:31 -0600, Matt Thompson wrote:
> Ext4 is supposed to be pretty awesome. Check out the write performance
> for large files:
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_ext4&num=4
> 
> Of course, your kernel has to be new enough to have it. I've got Ext3 on
> my 250GB external and it works pretty well, I can even use the windows
> Ext2 driver with it: http://fs-driver.org/
> 
> The only problem with mounting it as Ext2 is if you disconnect it
> without unmounting you might end up scanning for a long time since it
> disables the journaling in Ext2 mode. If you're sticking with linux this
> won't be a problem.
> 
> On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 00:32 -0600, Wolfgang wrote:
> > I encountered an issue I've never had before tonight, a file actually
> > too big for a FAT32 partition, the external is an old 80GB that I use
> > for all of my Linux .iso files and about 10GB of media files I need to
> > keep around.  My question is what format should I use, I don't really
> > need it to by Windows compatible so I'm considering Ext 3, but thought
> > I would ask what format would be ideal if I plan on it only be used
> > with Linux.
> > 
> > -- 
> > "You must control your future by taking command of your present, and
> > fixing and learning from your past."
> > 
> > "When history is forgotten people don't realize when it repeats."
> 
> 
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