<div dir="ltr">If all you want is for this server to be there and not have to worry about it then I'd recommend ext4.<div><br></div><div>Put the data and the OS on separate disks if you can.</div><div><br></div><div><div>Many years ago (over ten years), I used ReiserFS for my desktop. It worked great and didn't have the limitations of the other fs's of the time (ext2/ext3).</div><div>Until one day I tried to shrink it to make room for another distro. BIG mistake. The tools weren't mature and I lost all my data.</div><div><br></div><div>*MY* take-away from this - stick to mainstream if you want things to "just work", and without knowing more about your context I'd expect 99% that ext4 will do just fine for the job.</div><div><br></div><div>Good luck,</div><div><br></div><div>--Amos</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 14 April 2015 at 17:17, E.S. Rosenberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:esr+linux-il@g.jct.ac.il" target="_blank">esr+linux-il@g.jct.ac.il</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Of course you're going to reformat, after all the technicalities of<br>
the local fs will be hidden from the clients by nfs/smb/(web)dav.<br>
<br>
As far as which FS goes, ext4 is a safe bet, it seems the big server<br>
players are recently opting for XFS.<br>
<br>
And if you feel adventurous and want the power of ZFS that is also an<br>
option these days or if you want something similar btrfs is also<br>
pretty good these days (my phone uses it for it's main storage and I<br>
have no complaints).<br>
<br>
HTH,<br>
Eliyahu - אליהו<br>
<br>
2015-04-14 6:44 GMT+03:00 Shlomo Solomon <<a href="mailto:shlomo.solomon@gmail.com">shlomo.solomon@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
> I'm setting up a home NAS - Raspberry PI2, Raspbian, Samba, external<br>
> disk. It's meant to serve files to a mixed network - Linux, Windows and<br>
> Android devices. The new disk comes formatted as NTFS. My "gut" tells<br>
> me to re-format as EXT4 - any comments or suggestions?<br>
><br>
> Additional info: The files will be a mix of music, video and office<br>
> files. I will also be backing up at least one of the Linux boxes on<br>
> this server, so there will also be a fair number of small files -<br>
> e-mail, config files, etc. In the past I used to prefer ReiserFS, but<br>
> over the years, I've gradually moved to EXT4 for new disks.<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Shlomo Solomon<br>
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