File System on external hard drive

[Karl F. Larsen]

Mriswithe wrote:
>>> Which filesystem is the most desirable and recommended. There seems to be
>>> luxury of plenty. EXT3, EXT4, ZFS etc ?
>>>
>>> Can someone give academically honest answer ?
>> There was a thorough discussion of this topic on ./  the other day
>> (http://slashdot.org).  Many, many different opinions, but also some
>> useful setups, depending on what you need to use the external for.
>>
>> Chros
>>
> 
> So on this same topic since it seems I am at a good time to make a change
> and this seems to be pretty civil so far. I am using a harddrive for NAS on
> my home network and it is where rtorrent puts its downloads. It is currently
> formatted as ext3, I usually end up with files all over the place as far as
> size. Music, anime (200-300mb), movies (700mb) and but rarely something too
> much bigger.
> 
> So my question is this, is ext3 the best thing, or at least are there any
> major problems I will run into with this ? Some Input would be greatly
> appreciated.
> 
> 
> Andrew
> 
> 

	Unless you have some very special use for file system, use ext3 which 
is what 98% of all Linux computers have now.

73 Karl


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