2008/12/24 Bob Williams <linux@barrowhillfarm.org.uk>:
On Wednesday 24 December 2008 20:59:58 Rob OpenSuSE wrote:
2008/12/24 Bob Williams <linux@barrowhillfarm.org.uk>:
I think your point about long fsck times is valid, and one I need to consider. This is a personal home machine, not a data server. Some data in /home/bob is modified frequently, whereas other data is write once, read often. For example, I have about 380GB of music in flac format, which I had thought of putting on its own partition, possibly formatted as ext2.
XFS is your best bet. Mature 64 bit FS, very popular for serving multi-media type files. ext2 would be very low in my preferences for this job, it's an old design made when 1GB was a big disk. I like it for small /boot partitions, where a journal file wastes space, or would be bad eg) a flash drive when FAT stuff won't do.
I dabbled in LVM a while ago, and got into trouble during an upgrade, so I've left it alone. I understand the principle and it certainly makes sense.
So long as it's just data partitions with it on, you should be able to decouple, upgrade issues. I've not had problems with LVM stuff created by Fedora for example in OS 10.3 nor 11.1, nor data shared in LVM area between openSUSE releases. I remember the format changed, after the initial version, but that was a long time ago 2001? And LVM really ought to be very solid and stable now.
Many thanks for your lengthy and thought-provoking reply. And Happy Christmas
You're welcome. It's kind of nice, when folk actually think about file systems and such, rather than why their audio won't work ;) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org