gharris999;259369 Wrote: > So, if one doesn't need journaling on a drive (and why would journaling > be advantageous on a drive that holds only static audio files?) what's > wrong with using ext2 or even ntfs? Other than journaling, what are > the big advantages of ext3 over ext2?
As many people are aware, an ext3 filesystem can be mounted in ext2 mode, and nothing bad happens. You simply unmount and remount in ext3 mode and things go back to normal. As far as I remember, some of the more modern filesystem features that ext3 supports are NOT in the ext2 portion of the code as they work with the journaling system. A major feature missing from ext2 mode is "dir_index". This feature adds hashing speedups to filename listings. This feature greatly improves scanning speed and file access for slimserver. If you manually format the filesystem you want to do this: mkfs.ext3 -O dir_index,sparse_super /dev/foo -T largefile may also be good if it's dedicated to large FLAC files. Small files and lots of symlinks/dirs would of course waste a LOT of space with 1MB inode sizes. -- SuperQ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SuperQ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2139 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42273 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
