[Digikam-users] New computer for Digikam

[Gerhard Kulzer]

Am Sunday 09 December 2007 schrieb Dotan Cohen:
> On 09/12/2007, Gerhard Kulzer <gerhardkgmx at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Are you suggesting that I mount ~/.thumbnails as a separate ext2 (no
> > > journal) partition? I thought that xfs and reiserfs are journaled like
> > > ext3. Can you inform me better, or should I ask around on my distro's
> > > mailing list?
> >
> > xfs, reiserfs and ext3 all come journaled by default, but you can disable
> > it. That's not what I recommend, however. The trick is to format the
> > partitions so that the journal is on another disk (not partition,
> > important). Then you don't loose speed because of the journaling.
> > $ mkfs.xfs -l logdev=/dev/sdb1,size=10000b /dev/sda1
> > Mount ~/.thumbnails on a separate partion gains nothing.
>
> So ~/.thumbnails will be on a partition who's journal is on another
> disk. Would it be unwise to have another partition on the same disk as
> .thumbnails? I suppose that I could put .thumbnails on the 160 GB IDE
> (there's also a 500 GB IDE drive, and there will be yet a SATA drive
> that will come with the machine.). Can the swap partition be on the
> same disk as .thumbnails? The / filesystem? The /pictures partition,
> on which Digikam stores it's photos? The /music partition, which
> almost always has something playing in the background?
You can mix it all. The point is to have the journal of anywhich particular 
partion not on the same drive, only that will allow for parallel access.
>
> I'm sorry to ask such newbie questions, but I'm not finding anything
> on my level when googling. I probably am not searching on the proper
> terms. Actually, from what I've read today it would seem fine to not
> have a journal at all, as the .thumbnails folder is not critical and
> can be easily recreated in the event of power failure.
If you put thumbnails on a separate partition you are right, no need for 
journaling. 

>
> I very much appreciate the help, and I am learning a lot. More than I
> wanted to :)
>
> Dotan Cohen
>
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