Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

2013-01-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 02 Jan 2013 15:08:57 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > ecryptfs looks easy to use with zfs: > http://pthree.org/2012/08/21/encrypted-zfs-filesystems-on-linux/ I found that one on subsequent googling. I had hoped that it would be included in ZFS, meaning I could replace four layers; RAI

Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

2013-01-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Mittwoch, 2. Januar 2013, 15:38:01 schrieb Alan McKinnon: > AFAIK, Oracle included encryption in ZFS v30 but this has not been > released as opensource. The last OSS version released was 28. > > What this means to me is that devs could include disk-encryption but > they probably won't have a s

Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

2013-01-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 2 Jan 2013 13:04:50 + Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 02:18:00 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > There is no more weird partitions from the days of DOS, no PV/VG/LV > > to remember the details of. There is only storage and ZFS knows > > what I want to happen with each "chu

Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

2013-01-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 02:18:00 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > There is no more weird partitions from the days of DOS, no PV/VG/LV to > remember the details of. There is only storage and ZFS knows what I > want to happen with each "chunk" of it. A "chunk" (my term) in this > context is a directory and

Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

2012-12-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 14:57:09 +0100 Michael Hampicke wrote: > Migrating my NAS to ZFS is something that has been floating around my > head for a longer time. But I am not really sure if I want to switch > from gentoo to FreeBSD on my NAS. zfsonlinux is there, but it's first > release was early 201

Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

2012-12-27 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 27.12.2012 01:18, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 07:41:01 -0800 > Mark Knecht wrote: > >> Hi, >>Merry Christmas to all. >> >>Upgrading an external USB2 drive at home this Christmas morning to >> 1TB for more video storage space. One large partition, non-raid, files >> are

Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

2012-12-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 27.12.2012 01:18, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > I am *very* impressed with ZFS for this. Yes, I know, it's not really > there on Linux - I use it on FreeBSD (FreeNAS). > > It has everything I've wanted in a filesystem for a long time, and all > the crap I've stuffed into my head over many years rel

Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

2012-12-26 Thread Alecks Gates
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >Merry Christmas to all. > >Upgrading an external USB2 drive at home this Christmas morning to > 1TB for more video storage space. One large partition, non-raid, files > are around 1GB. The drive holds only static video files that g

Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

2012-12-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 07:41:01 -0800 Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >Merry Christmas to all. > >Upgrading an external USB2 drive at home this Christmas morning to > 1TB for more video storage space. One large partition, non-raid, files > are around 1GB. The drive holds only static video files th

Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

2012-12-25 Thread Marc Stürmer
2012/12/25 Mark Knecht : >Upgrading an external USB2 drive at home this Christmas morning to > 1TB for more video storage space. One large partition, non-raid, files > are around 1GB. The drive holds only static video files that get > written once and don't change or get erased. No MythTV stuf

Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

2012-12-25 Thread Dale
Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 25.12.2012 18:15, schrieb Dale: >> Florian Philipp wrote: >>> Am 25.12.2012 16:41, schrieb Mark Knecht: Hi, Merry Christmas to all. Upgrading an external USB2 drive at home this Christmas morning to 1TB for more video storage space. One lar

Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

2012-12-25 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 25.12.2012 18:15, schrieb Dale: > Florian Philipp wrote: >> Am 25.12.2012 16:41, schrieb Mark Knecht: >>> Hi, >>>Merry Christmas to all. >>> >>>Upgrading an external USB2 drive at home this Christmas morning to >>> 1TB for more video storage space. One large partition, non-raid, files >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

2012-12-25 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 25.12.2012 19:26, schrieb Mark Knecht: > On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Michael Orlitzky > wrote: >> On 12/25/2012 12:07 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >>> On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Dec 25, 2012 10:44 PM, "Mark Knecht" wrote: >>> >With the previous

Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

2012-12-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 12/25/2012 12:07 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: >>> >>> On Dec 25, 2012 10:44 PM, "Mark Knecht" wrote: >> With the previous local drive I used ext3 and have had no problems. >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

2012-12-25 Thread Dale
Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 12/25/2012 12:07 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: >>> On Dec 25, 2012 10:44 PM, "Mark Knecht" wrote: >> With the previous local drive I used ext3 and have had no problems. I'm just wondering if there's a bett

Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

2012-12-25 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/25/2012 12:07 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> >> On Dec 25, 2012 10:44 PM, "Mark Knecht" wrote: > >>>With the previous local drive I used ext3 and have had no problems. >>> I'm just wondering if there's a better choice & why. > >> >> Fo

Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

2012-12-25 Thread Dale
Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 25.12.2012 16:41, schrieb Mark Knecht: >> Hi, >>Merry Christmas to all. >> >>Upgrading an external USB2 drive at home this Christmas morning to >> 1TB for more video storage space. One large partition, non-raid, files >> are around 1GB. The drive holds only stati

Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

2012-12-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > On Dec 25, 2012 10:44 PM, "Mark Knecht" wrote: >>With the previous local drive I used ext3 and have had no problems. >> I'm just wondering if there's a better choice & why. > > For your usage, I think ext3 is the most suitable. > > Do

Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

2012-12-25 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 25.12.2012 16:41, schrieb Mark Knecht: > Hi, >Merry Christmas to all. > >Upgrading an external USB2 drive at home this Christmas morning to > 1TB for more video storage space. One large partition, non-raid, files > are around 1GB. The drive holds only static video files that get > writt

Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

2012-12-25 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Dec 25, 2012 10:44 PM, "Mark Knecht" wrote: > > Hi, >Merry Christmas to all. > >Upgrading an external USB2 drive at home this Christmas morning to > 1TB for more video storage space. One large partition, non-raid, files > are around 1GB. The drive holds only static video files that get

[gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

2012-12-25 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Merry Christmas to all. Upgrading an external USB2 drive at home this Christmas morning to 1TB for more video storage space. One large partition, non-raid, files are around 1GB. The drive holds only static video files that get written once and don't change or get erased. No MythTV stuff