[NBLUG/talk] File System recommendation needed

[Kyle Rankin]

On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 12:39:21PM -0700, 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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For media in particular (many large files) I'd probably go XFS, but ext4 is
not a bad choice either.

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