Am Tue, 30 Aug 2016 22:27:46 +0200 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerar...@googlemail.com>:
> Am 30.08.2016 um 21:14 schrieb J. Roeleveld: > > On August 30, 2016 8:58:17 PM GMT+02:00, Volker Armin Hemmann > > <volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> Am 30.08.2016 um 20:12 schrieb Alan McKinnon: > [...] > [...] > [...] > >> first > [...] > [...] > >> includes > [...] > [...] > [...] > [...] > >> because exfat does not work across gentoo systems. ext2 does. > > Exfat works when the drivers are installed. > > Same goes for ext2. > > > > It is possible to not have support for ext2/3 or 4 and still have a > > fully functional system. (Btrfs or zfs for the full system for > > instance) > > > > When using UEFI boot, a vfat partition with support is required. > > > > -- > > Joost > > ext2 is on every system Not on mine... > , exfat not. ext2 is very stable, tested and > well aged. exfat is some fuse something crap. New, hardly tested and > unstable as it gets. > > And why use exfat if you use linux? It is just not needed at all. I consider ext2 not suitable for USB drives because it has no journal and can break horribly if accidentally removed without unmounting (or pulling before everything was written). OTOH, I recommend against using filesystems with a fixed journal area on thumb drives. Some may be optimized for NTFS usage. A log structured filesystem (like f2fs, nilfs2) or one with wandering journals (like reiserfs) may be best - tho I cannot speak for them regarding accidental disconnects without unmounting first. One should test it. Reiserfs3 worked very well for me, much better than ext[23], when I once had to fight with a failing RAID controller (it just went offline). All reiserfs could be recovered by fsck, only a few files had wrong checksums, a few were missing - that system (different hardware of course) is still in use today but converted over to xfs because reiserfs is a really bad performer for parallel access. Ext[23] was totally borked, fsck had no chance to recover anything. I'd consider reiserfs3 mature. Personally, I tend to using f2fs on thumb drives. Nilfs2 may be an option, too. But I never used that. I have no experience with f2fs on failing hardware, tho. But in the end: thumb drives aren't for important data anyway. So what counts is getting the best life time out of them. -- Regards, Kai Replies to list-only preferred.
