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Re: Req. Advice from Lazy Web on Configuring 1.5TB extern. HD



On Lu, 28 iun 10, 13:38:47, Arthur Machlas wrote:
> >> 1) ext2 to image / from my debian install. 50GB so I could have two or
> >> three "snapshots"
> >
> > Why ext2? I don't see any reason to use something less than ext3 for
> > "regular" operations.
> >
> 
> Ext2 because who needs journaling? It will have three, maybe four
> files on it, each about 10GB. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't
> think anything else out there is as fast as ext2, when it comes to
> writing large files.

AFAIK ext4 and xfs are optimized for large files...

Regards,
Andrei
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