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Hard drive format? (programming.dev)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I'm setting up a new hard drive and formatted it as exFAT. I liked the cross platform support and not having to deal with permissions when mounting the device. BUT it doesn't support hardlinks, which I want to use for the *arr apps. Is NTFS the best pick, and I'll just have to live with read only on mac?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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NFS Network File System, a Unix-based file-sharing protocol known for performance and efficiency
RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage
ZFS Solaris/Linux filesystem focusing on data integrity

3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 6 acronyms.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ohhh I didn't realize it didn't matter if it was accessed over the network with samba. This'll just be on a Debian server

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, so in that case I'd just use ext4 or, if you want checksums, btrfs (though this doesn't matter too much as btrfs currently doesn't support raid in any real sense, so it can't actually correct the data, just tell you it's bad).

ZFS can do the checksums with RAID and error correction, but getting that on Linux (without using a specialty distro like TrueNAS Scale) is still a pain.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's not hard on Debian

https://wiki.debian.org/ZFS

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Huh, TIL...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I’m a huge fan of XFS for network mounts. I think everyone else here is right that the best filesystem will depend on the OS, and picking one to make it compatible with everything has serious tradeoffs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Why specifically are you a fan of XFS for network mounts?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I didn’t have a great reason other than mind-blowing performance on my LAN, and with large files (which I have a lot of) performance is better too. Probably I’m not smart enough to answer this well, but I did just see this today: https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-611-filesystems/2

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"*arr apps"?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Sonarr prowlarr radarr and many more. These are very powerful media download managers. I recommend using usenet.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Why are you running servers with a data store on a partition that you mount on multiple operating systems?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

I just use ext4 on everything. It works pretty nicely.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Use a network share

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

It might be time to virtualize.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

My recommendation would be to use a hard disk in a single computer, and to use a single operating system for a single computer.

Then you pick the most capable, fastest, native FS that fits your bill.

If you need to transmit data between computers, use the network. It’s that it’s there for.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

I'd 2nd this: you're using it for downloading media, so presumably one of the computers is the one running the actual software that's doing that. Just share the drive over the network from there, and pick the best-supported FS on that platform.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

ZFS?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I'm a big fan of ZFS, and I use it extensively. For a single hard drive, though, wouldn't ext4 and a few NFS shares make a lot more sense?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

zfs is fine on a single drive too, and its cross platform, which OP said they wanted (though not which platforms, which is important here). ext4 is junk on windows and nfs doesn't work well either for windows, which i assume OP wants because they mention NTFS.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

ZFS.