On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 7:34 PM Aidan Gauland <aidal...@fastmail.net> wrote:
> I want to set up a file server on my home LAN with just consumer-grade > hardware, and run Debian stable on it. For hardware, I am probably > going to get a refurbished mid-range tower with a four to six 3.5" SATA > drive capacity, and put WD Reds in it. > > What I'm not sure of which filesystem to use. I could just use ext4 > with RAID5 or RAID6 to get striping with some fault tolerance (i.e. time > to replace a failed drive without losing everything). ZFS looks easier, > but only if you're on BSD. btrfs sounds like ZFS for Linux, but it > appears to still be of beta quality, and I can't tell whether it can yet > do striping with parity. Any advice? > ext4 is the best way to go unless you have extremely specific needs or you really want to overcomplicate things for a hobby.
