On 02/18/2015 02:35 AM, auxsvr@gmail.com wrote:
This has been working here for the past 5 years.
That's fine, peter, but I really don't want to load R and all its dependencies just to run this the once to see what parameters I need to give to the creation of a ext4FS to move my photos there. So far on this thread I'm disappointed that no-one really is trying to anwers the question i'm asking.. No, I don't want to use XFS. It solves the inode problem the same way that ReiserFS does. No, I don't want to 'fergetaboutit', I've been bitten by inode/data imbalance/exhaustion. Its why I use ReiserFS and BtrFS. If I were so in lined I might have gone the XFS path instead of ReiserFS, si ce both are B-tree and both 'create' inodes dynamically and both are easily resizeable. But I went the ReiserFS route and that has proven stable and reliable. Part of the reason I'm looking at ext4 is that size of the files under ~/Photography is pretty predictable. RAW files are *always* about 24M. The .xml files are *always* just a few k. The JPG files are *always* a few meg, always less than 10M usually only 2-3M, Things in ~/Documents, ~/Downloads and ~/Music are much more variable. So there's a lot of predictability to the files in ~/Photogrpahy. Both to the overall FS and to the actual layout of each file on the disk allocation. This sounds like something ext4 could take advantage of. What I'm surprised at is that none of the ext4 boosters have had that "yes, this is a good match for ext4". Perhaps it isn't or perhaps they are just rah-rah-rah fanbois who don't actually understand the technology :-O Seriously: is there someone who understands ext4 well enough to say "yes this is a good match, here's how" or "no, it isn't, just, as Berny says, make the FS so over-provisioned that it doesn't matter. If the latter, then I know that its not worth bothering with changing from ReiserFS to ext4FS. This is all just a query, not a raging argument. If the ext4 people gan give me adequate reasons to change then I'm interested, but if not I'm happy using ReiserFS into the foreseeable future. I've never had any unrecoverable problems with ReiserFS. -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org