On 08/04/2008, Andrew Edwards <edwards.andrew(a)gmail.com> wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/388
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/most-efficient-linux-file-system-for-laptop...
look at the reply posts on that one... big files = xfs raid = reiser...
be careful or at least wary of filesystems which aren't hardened, if
they suddenly drop their tables... you're pretty much buggered!
Cheers for those Andrew :-) I'm having some interesting reading right
now :-) For starters, what I don't want is a journalling file system
for the system stuff. I intend on having a spare compact flash card
to run the main system. All the actual data (whether it's music or
video or even textual documents - though I may set up a separate
server for the documents) will go onto good old fashioned hard drives.
Again, however, I don't think I'll need a journalling file system for
this as it will/should be a pretty much write to disk once and then
purely accessing rather than multiple read/writes.
I also have to think about the compact flash drive. It's mentioned
often (and I did know but it had passed to the back of my memory) that
solid state drives only have a limited number of read write accesses.
So, I will need to keep those down (noatime me thinks).
One last question for now...'Hardened'? You've gone into the realms
of the unknown there. Can you expand on it for me :-) please?
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