[NBLUG/talk] File System recommendation needed

Michael Tucker mchltckr80 at gmail.com
Sat May 18 20:50:27 PDT 2013


You could always setup an extra disk with RAID configuration for faster
access or redundancy too, considering the hardware mentioned being a factor
and the fact that your last disk was beeping by the time you replaced it.
On May 18, 2013 2:10 PM, "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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