[NBLUG/talk] File System recommendation needed

E Frank Ball III frankb at frankb.us
Sat May 18 20:36:58 PDT 2013


Jezra,

As was already mentioned, look into the noatime or the newer relatime
option to minimize drive writes:

http://linux.koolsolutions.com/2009/01/30/installing-linux-on-usb-part-4-noatime
-and-relatime-mount-options/

   E Frank Ball                efball at efball.com


On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 02:20:49PM -0700, jezra wrote:
 > My concern mostly has to do with disk longevity. Currently I'm copying
 > my data from a 2TB drive with some bad sectors to the 1TB drive, and
 > the 2TB drive keeps beeping. grrrrrrr
 > 
 > 
 > On Sat, 18 May 2013 13:54:32 -0700
 > Jordan Erickson <jerickson at logicalnetworking.net> wrote:
 > 
 > > I'm not the most experienced with this but I would have to think that
 > > ext4, ReiserFS or XFS would probably all be just fine. Don't forget to
 > > tune the filesystem options (/etc/fstab, etc.) too for your specific
 > > use case (noatime/relatime come to mind for ext* filesystems, not
 > > sure about others). Actual hardware specs will probably impact your
 > > media consuming ability much more than the filesystem used on storage
 > > medium. Also, think about the future - set it up with LVM if you can
 > > as that would allow for easy adding of storage devices to the current
 > > volume without much headache if/when you run out of room.
 > > 
 > > 
 > > Cheers,
 > > Jordan
 > > 
 > > 
 > > 
 > > On 05/18/2013 12:39 PM, jezra wrote:
 > > > Hi Everyone,
 > > > I've got a 1TB SATA drive that I'm about to format and before I use
 > > > ext4, I thought I would ask around for file system recommendations.
 > > > The drive will be part of my media machine and will store my DVD
 > > > collection. The files in the drive will mostly be around 1GB in size
 > > > and the drive will have far more reads than writes.
 > > >
 > > > Jezra
 > > >
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