Timothy Stockman wrote: > I've been researching this very question (which file system), as I will > be adding a 1TB drive to the new linux system which should arrive any > day now. So far, I'm leaning to ext3 with the following tweaks: > > 1. Inode size 256 bytes (for easy migration to ext4) > 2. Less inodes than default (since the files will be large)
Be careful - I did this and managed to run out of inodes. > 3. Less root reservation (since this drive will be for music) On a data drive, you can manage with 0% root reservation. R. > Since the music files are mostly read-only, I don't expect > fragmentation to be a big problem. Ext3 is rock solid, and I'll > eventually move to ext4, after it has some time out in the real world. Why bother? Stick it on ext3 and forget about it, until you buy that 20TB disk in a couple of years. R. _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
