Re: formatting a disk for a home NAS

2015-04-14 Thread 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

Re: formatting a disk for a home NAS

2015-04-14 Thread Amos Shapira
If all you want is for this server to be there and not have to worry about it then I'd recommend ext4. Put the data and the OS on separate disks if you can. 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

Re: formatting a disk for a home NAS

2015-04-14 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2015-04-14 10:28 GMT+03:00 Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com: If all you want is for this server to be there and not have to worry about it then I'd recommend ext4. Put the data and the OS on separate disks if you can. Always do that! In this case you have to anyhow since the RPi is