[NBLUG/talk] File System recommendation needed

[Zack Gold]

That doesn't sound good.


On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 2:20 PM, jezra <jezra at jezra.net> wrote:

> 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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Zack Gold
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