On 12/25/2012 12:07 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info> wrote: >> >> On Dec 25, 2012 10:44 PM, "Mark Knecht" <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > <SNIP> >>> With the previous local drive I used ext3 and have had no problems. >>> I'm just wondering if there's a better choice & why. > <SNIP> >> >> For your usage, I think ext3 is the most suitable. >> >> Do you have another fs in mind? > > Really, no. ext3 has been fine. I didn't see any real advantage to > ext4 myself. Florian offers the removal argument but I've never > removed files from this database. It's just movies so the systems just > grows over time. > > I suppose I wondered whether some other filesystem might get through > an fsck _much_ faster. >
There's really no reason to use ext3 over ext4. Ext4 does have a faster fsck.