On using Firewire drives for backups (was: Re: SCSI Disk/Controller advice please - fun - usb)

From: Rogério Brito (rbrito_at_users.sf.net)
Date: 10/31/04

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    On Oct 30 2004, Ron Johnson wrote:
    > On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 00:33 -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
    > > but people still think usb hd is what they want .... geez...
    > > ( it's their $$$ for time and hw )
    >
    > That's why I voted with my $$$ for a firewire enclosure

    That's what I did also: motivated by the good performance of my iPod when
    connected the Firewire port of my iBook both under MacOS X and under Linux
    and looking to be as prepared as possible in the event of crash recovery, I
    bought myself a Firewire enclosure for an IDE drive and a vanilla Firewire
    card for my Desktop.

    I have been quite happy with this strategy ever since. And the nice point
    is that current Linux kernels are able to use HFS+ quite well, which is a
    good compromise between a filesystem that can be used with Linux and with
    other OSes (it allows symlinks, which VFAT doesn't and it can be journaled,
    which VFAT also doesn't allow). 

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