pounce;540628 Wrote: > I'm curious. Are you really going to stop your show because of your > drive format? External drives are pretty cheap these days. Would you > consider a mirror of your music on another drive that is one of the > supported file systems?
Hi Pounce, u have a good point with the external drives being cheap, and probably will end up doing as per your suggestion. My concern with the filesystem is that I'm a sysadmin and after 13 years of practice I've grown very dependable on the features of the XFS filesystem and recently also from Sun's ZFS (snapshots and the ability to roll-back is bliss. EXT2/3/4 and reiserfs have let me down and crying more than once, and I have a huge collection of flac's that I don't intend to loose to an fsck_of_death from a power failure. Currently I own a Boom connected to slackware server with my flac volume mounted as read-only (yes, I remount it manually in read-write mode every time I add a new rip to my collection). This has several advantages, for instance: - no power failure can corrupt my collection - using XFS command xfs_fsr it "defragments" and reorganize the inodes making access to massive ammounts of data very quickly, efficently and multi-threaded. This is most noticeable when I stream to my boom and also export the volume using samba for example to play on $random foobar player. - XFS was designed by SGI (Silicon Graphics) for multimedia and massive amounts of data. - there's _no_ fsck of death in XFS, it's journalling/recovery features are very good. anyway, I don't mean to bore u guys with technical details, I'm so eager to get a touch that I'll surely buy it all the same. @Grahame, my backup setup is complicated, but to answer your question: I have a cron job that tar's & copies my flac volume to an NFS share on a Solaris server, there I snapshot it with another cron job weekly on a ZFS volume. (I hope I was not to nerdy, feel free to ask me for further clarifications). thanks for the swift replies guys, I value the feedback u gave me :D t0mg -- t0mg ------------------------------------------------------------------------ t0mg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37834 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77955 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
