[NBLUG/talk] File System recommendation needed

jezra jezra at jezra.net
Sat May 18 14:20:49 PDT 2013


My concern mostly has to do with disk longevity. Currently I'm copying
my data from a 2TB drive with some bad sectors to the 1TB drive, and
the 2TB drive keeps beeping. grrrrrrr


On Sat, 18 May 2013 13:54:32 -0700
Jordan Erickson <jerickson at logicalnetworking.net> wrote:

> I'm not the most experienced with this but I would have to think that
> ext4, ReiserFS or XFS would probably all be just fine. Don't forget to
> tune the filesystem options (/etc/fstab, etc.) too for your specific
> use case (noatime/relatime come to mind for ext* filesystems, not
> sure about others). Actual hardware specs will probably impact your
> media consuming ability much more than the filesystem used on storage
> medium. Also, think about the future - set it up with LVM if you can
> as that would allow for easy adding of storage devices to the current
> volume without much headache if/when you run out of room.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Jordan
> 
> 
> 
> On 05/18/2013 12:39 PM, jezra wrote:
> > Hi Everyone,
> > I've got a 1TB SATA drive that I'm about to format and before I use
> > ext4, I thought I would ask around for file system recommendations.
> > The drive will be part of my media machine and will store my DVD
> > collection. The files in the drive will mostly be around 1GB in size
> > and the drive will have far more reads than writes.
> >
> > Jezra
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