[gentoo-user] Filesystem recommendation for external media storage

[Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@gmx.de>]

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Hi list

By chance I found an external 3 TB disk for a bargain and now I’m planning its
partitioning. I am thus looking for a filesystem that doesn’t necessarily
need file permissions to function, the reason being that I might want to take
the disk to other people in order to copy files around. That’s why I don’t
really want to use ext4 (my FS of choice for everything else).

My current media HDD (1 TB) runs on FAT32. But this is not up-to-date anymore
due to the 4 GiB filesize limitation. NTFS is also not a good option (for me
anyway), because whenever I copy a file to it, ntfs-3g sets its mtime to
now(). This makes it impossible to do automated syncing. Also, it loads the
CPU pretty heavily when being written to.

Windows compatibility is not a must, but a nice-to-have. That would reduce my
remaining choices to ExFAT, I presume.

What’s your advice? Thanks a latte.
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