Winterlight,
I don't believe that EXT4 / EXT3 / EXT2 /etc. is NTFS. It is some disk
format that IS compatible with several flavors of linux (as I read my
Netgear/Infrant forum pages).
I know that my NAS is SPARC-based, but it does use some flavor of linux
as its' OS. The gurus tell us NOT to format external storage/backup
drives with NTFS because it is dog slow for backup duties (on-board
backup app and RSYNC). I'm told to format my drives as FAT/FAT32 (ok),
or EXT3. I'm not up to speed on EXT4 yet, however. Besides, my NAS can
not do EXT4 anyway.
I think the choice between FAT or EXT3 involves hard drive partition
sizes. Still reading.
Best,
Duncan
Winterlight wrote:
I assume Ext4 is the latest NTFS driver? I don't know if it or Ext3 is
ok or safe. That is what I am asking, and yes I do have data on those
disks I want to keep = media storage. I am not going to stream at this
time but I may do playback if I can get TV out to work. Mostly I am
planning on storing stuff I don't access very often, about 3TB.... but I
do not want to loose it.
At 04:03 AM 11/28/2009, you wrote:
What's wrong with Ext4? Do you have data on those disks you want to
save? Isn't Ext4 supposed to be much faster and boot the system more
quickly? Haven't used it myself but thinking about it as I have a copy
of 9.10.
Winterlight wrote:
I plan on putting together a PC from old parts, dual Xeon, 4GB of
DDR, ATI 1950Pro, to stick all my extra hard SATA drives in. I am not
doing RAID. Each individual drive is partitioned as a Logical NTFS.I
don't want to deal with licensing issues so I thought I would run
Windows 2000...except it doesn't support HT.... but then I thought
this would be a good time to use Ubuntu 9.01. I know it can read NTFS
and there is a driver to let it write to NTFS, but how safe, and
reliable is this... do I have to worry about Data corruption?
