formatting a disk for a home NAS

[E.S. Rosenberg]

Of course you're going to reformat, after all the technicalities of
the local fs will be hidden from the clients by nfs/smb/(web)dav.

As far as which FS goes, ext4 is a safe bet, it seems the big server
players are recently opting for XFS.

And if you feel adventurous and want the power of ZFS that is also an
option these days or if you want something similar btrfs is also
pretty good these days (my phone uses it for it's main storage and I
have no complaints).

HTH,
Eliyahu - אליהו

2015-04-14 6:44 GMT+03:00 Shlomo Solomon <shlomo.solomon at gmail.com>:
> I'm setting up a home NAS - Raspberry PI2, Raspbian, Samba, external
> disk. It's meant to serve files to a mixed network - Linux, Windows and
> Android devices. The new disk comes formatted as NTFS. My "gut" tells
> me to re-format as EXT4 - any comments or suggestions?
>
> Additional info: The files will be a mix of music, video and office
> files. I will also be backing up at least one of the Linux boxes on
> this server, so there will also be a fair number of small files -
> e-mail, config files, etc. In the past I used to prefer ReiserFS, but
> over the years, I've gradually moved to EXT4 for new disks.
>
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