Re: Advice about ext3, please
On 2009-03-07 21:30 +0100, Paul E Condon wrote:
> I'd like some confirmation, or refutation, of some reasoning:
>
> I have a USB external hard drive. It came with vfat fs, but I want to
> write an ext2/3 fs on it. All my internal HD are ext3, but should this
> one be ext3, also?
That would be okay, unless you need to access it from systems that
cannot read ext3.
> Doesn't ext3 essentially write everything twice,
> first to the journal, and then to the actual target location?
No, unless you use the mount option data=journal. See the "Mount
options for ext3" section in mount(8).
> This is OK with an internal bus interface from the CPU to the HD, but
> USB is not so fast. So I think I should not use ext3 for this HD. Is
> this correct?
AFAIK there are no special disadvantages in using ext3 for external hard
disks.
Sven
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