Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jun 1999 21:42:13 -0400 | Subject | Re: [PPC] ext2 filesytem corruption on linux 2.2.9 PowerPC | From | tytso@mit ... |
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Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 17:01:20 +0200 (CEST) From: Simon Richter <geier@phobos.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de>
Well, other filesystems than ext2 are much better suited for removable media (minixfs for example). I hardly know anyone using ext2 on removable media *and* exchanging software with people using other platforms. :-)
There really isn't a problem using ext2 for removeable media, unless it's a portability concern (in which case using vfat is a better choice than minixfs). The one issue with using ext2 for smaller disks that by default mke2fs creates a filesystem fairly large inode table, and on a 1.44 meg floppy the overhead is pretty noticeable. This can be addressed using the the -i option to mke2fs. A larger number passed to -i will decrease the number of inodes created; the default value is 4096, which means there will be enough inodes created for if the average file size is 4k.
- Ted
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