Hello,
As I try to improve the storage of my Images (>100k images/more than 1TB) and to easily switch computers to do my workflow (most notably if I can have something faster than my netbook), I moved my Images folder from ext4 to fat32 partition.
As a result there was a big degradation of performance, most notably digikam takes 20 to 30 min to open and always do a long folder analysis at start whatever if there is new images or not. was less than 5min on ext4. It does not seem to change a big thing if the DB (both digikam4 and thumbnails) are on fat32 or ext4.
I have a big Images folder but I'm in a long time travel and take a lot of photos.
On usage, performance impact seems acceptable while browsing, slower while writing lot of metadata.
As a way to improve thing, I'm asking myself to split my images (local collection on ext disk with a symlink to ~/Images) between an archives ext4 partition where things would be stalled or almost and the "current working last months" (3 for example). The distribution would be:
* internal disk: Images (current as local), ext4
* external disk: Images (backup/shared, sync w rsync or unisson, not used by netbook digikam, else removable collection), fat32
* external disk: ImagesArchives (removable collection), ext4
I need to get another hard disk as intermediate but else, in order for digikam to keep things well, I have to move files/folder inside digikam.
Or just do the move in terminal and let digikam rescan (metadata are written to file) ? but would probably take ages on my netbook so if I can avoid.
If possible, I also want to say that there is no need to scan the "Archives" disk for new things but I'm not sure it is possible.
Thanks a lot.
Cheers,
Julien
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