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On 12/25/2012 12:07 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info> wrote:
>>
>> On Dec 25, 2012 10:44 PM, "Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> <SNIP>
>>>    With the previous local drive I used ext3 and have had no problems.
>>> I'm just wondering if there's a better choice & why.
> <SNIP>
>>
>> For your usage, I think ext3 is the most suitable.
>>
>> Do you have another fs in mind?
> 
> Really, no. ext3 has been fine. I didn't see any real advantage to
> ext4 myself. Florian offers the removal argument but I've never
> removed files from this database. It's just movies so the systems just
> grows over time.
> 
> I suppose I wondered whether some other filesystem might get through
> an fsck _much_ faster.
> 

There's really no reason to use ext3 over ext4. Ext4 does have a faster
fsck.