[juneau-lug] Re: Will it spin?
- From: "Jeremy C. Hansen" <jeremyh@xxxxxxx>
- To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 20:49:27 -0900
I have a 120GB USB 2.0 drive and have had great luck mounting and unmounting
is various environments, I actually take the drive from Windows to Linux to
Mac OS X (Jag/Panther) often and it has been seamless. It is FAT32. I
believe that 9 box would destroy it, sounds scawwwwy.
I am a LaCie authorized dealer, so tell your friend give me a holler and
we'll see what kind of deal we can make on that 1T drive.
Sincerely,
Jeremy C. Hansen
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Subject: [juneau-lug] Re: Will it spin?
For what it's worth, I had a LaCie 40gb pocket drive at work to use
with a windoze 2000 machine. It had firewire and usb 1.0/2.0 all
on the same drive. We used it to transfer large GIS files from office
to office, and it was how the Forest Service would pass along some
of their large datasets. Because of the windoze environment, I had
it formatted FAT32. My SuSE 7.2 box couldn't mount it. It could
see the device, but not mount the partition. When I plugged it into
a Mac running OS9, it just destroyed the data partition.
So one must be very selective and very careful if using the drive
in a mixed platform situation.
Stephen
>Jeremy, Justin, James, & all
>
>Thanks for your suggestions. I probably should have offered more
>details. This big disk is to be used in a small work environment where
>the need is to store many, very large, digital images. ACL's and
>internal security are probably a low priority. Reliability and speed
>would be of concern. And compatibility with his image processing
>software (usually Win32, some Mac).
>
>The gist of my original question more to find out if some filesystems
>were more "friendly" (better tested, faster, etc) with very large size
>disks. Also if there were an known issues of mapping samba on top of a
>very large space.
>
>James - your suggestion of the 3 partitions is intriguing. I saw some
>benchmarks at the Reiser4 site ( http://www.namesys.com/ ), but wonder
>if they (the tests) are "non-partisan".
>
>In my mind stability and reliability trumps all. I wouldn't want to
>take a chance on lots of valuable data. Leave experimental filesystems
>for the experimenters.
>
>-Jamie
>
>James Zuelow wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 23:39:26 -0900
>>"Jeremy C. Hansen" <jeremyh@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Windows is going to look for "Of the file systems currently supported in
>>>Linux, XFS uses the most elaborate scheme for storing extended attributes
>>>[1]."
>>>
>>>- Jeremy
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>LOL. I don't want to start a religious war - everyone has their
>>favorite file systems. :) IMHO 99.9% of any ACL problems with
>>Samba will result from the Samba/winbind deployment, not the file
>>system. Also keep in mind that winbind, getfacl and setfacl will
>>be the same binaries regardless of the file system in use, so you
>>may not see the little nuances of the file systems.
>>
>>Jamie, if your buddy has time, set up three shares on the same
>>Samba server - ext3, Reiser & XFS and play with them using real
>>users and data. I've done that at work, and I think the results
>>will be anticlimactic.
>>
>>If he is using Samba at home (with only a few users and probably
>>nothing special in regards to detailed security policies on
>>directories & files), I'd suggest that he use whichever file system
>>he's been using in the past, since in my experience there's no real
>>difference in ACL support.
>>
>>If he's using Samba at work, I'd look at the environment, read the
>>whole document, and make a choice from there. For example, ext3
>>extended attributes are limited to 4KB, where Reiser/XFS can have
>>64KB. (IMHO You'd need a very complex ACL setup to need that).
>>Remember that the Windows "deny" ACLs aren't well supported. Also
>>note that the document I linked to is dated April 4 2003, almost a
>>year old. There are newer kernels and the file systems get tweaked
>>on a regular basis.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
> >James
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