Am 25.12.2012 16:41, schrieb Mark Knecht: > Hi, > Merry Christmas to all. > > Upgrading an external USB2 drive at home this Christmas morning to > 1TB for more video storage space. One large partition, non-raid, files > are around 1GB. The drive holds only static video files that get > written once and don't change or get erased. No MythTV stuff or > anything like that. > > This disk reside on my main desktop machine and gets backed up > every couple of days to another USB2 drive (FAT formatted > unfortunately) which attaches to the TV. > > With the previous local drive I used ext3 and have had no problems. > I'm just wondering if there's a better choice & why. > > Cheers, > Mark >
Ext4 offers better performance for large files. This is especially notable when you remove them but other operations are faster, too. XFS would be the traditional large-file choice but since the arrival of Ext4, I don't see a point in putting up with its quirks anymore. Regards, Florian Philipp
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