From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B4BD1381F3 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 13:09:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 09911E0995; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 13:09:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mout.gmx.net (mout.gmx.net [212.227.17.20]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2956E086F for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 13:09:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([10.1.76.12]) by mrigmx.server.lan (mrigmx002) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0Ly8nT-1UFNQN3KiL-015bpH for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 15:09:06 +0200 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 26 Jun 2013 13:09:06 -0000 Received: from wl-l3-160.rz.tu-ilmenau.de (EHLO localhost) [141.24.17.160] by mail.gmx.net (mp012) with SMTP; 26 Jun 2013 15:09:06 +0200 X-Authenticated: #4040096 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/5AstT+d35vtXHSa1TVi6ZNlQPOe1iJ4O29adnaa 4r3/OmrMVDaxsC Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 15:09:05 +0200 From: Frank Steinmetzger To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Filesystem recommendation for external media storage Message-ID: <20130626130905.GA4218@eisen.lan> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="+QahgC5+KEYLbs62" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt 1.5.21 (2010-09-15, Gentoo 1.5.21-r12) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: 06be16df-e685-4e1a-95cf-15a7d9e12094 X-Archives-Hash: d4b66153822f51f91361c17e1cb6d58a --+QahgC5+KEYLbs62 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi list By chance I found an external 3 TB disk for a bargain and now I=E2=80=99m p= lanning its partitioning. I am thus looking for a filesystem that doesn=E2=80=99t neces= sarily need file permissions to function, the reason being that I might want to ta= ke the disk to other people in order to copy files around. That=E2=80=99s why = I don=E2=80=99t 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 anymo= re 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=E2=80=99s your advice? Thanks a latte. --=20 Gru=C3=9F | Greetings | Qapla=E2=80=99 Please do not share anything from, with or about me with any Facebook servi= ce. Normal people believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet. --+QahgC5+KEYLbs62 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlHK5+wACgkQGafpl66MV0zO0gCcDfNfycD43GXoacEC8wVyupt1 JrIAoJp20L0F1GNihQH4jGeKqN8SNU79 =o5Vl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+QahgC5+KEYLbs62--