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
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
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
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?
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