How well a file system recovers from crashes or corruption.
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- Ext4 main computer
- NTFS for hard drives and stuff that need to be shared with other people using Windows
- BTRFS for the NAS
Interesting choice for NAS, why not the others that seem like better alternatives?
Well, as far as I know, BTRFS and ZFS are the recommended file systems for NAS's. They have self-healing capabilities so I can be slightly more sure that my data does not get corrupted over time.
Is self-healing process automated or you need to somehow enable it so it happens from time to time?
You have to run a so-called scrub command that checks for errors and tries to repair them. You can automate to run it every month or so
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NTFS for the drive I had before jumping to Mint. Currently reporting several hundred gigabytes free, but refusing to make any new files, because... I don't know. I'll deal with it after an upcoming move.
The OS / home SSD is ext4, and so is the fat loud hard disk I recently purchased through an entire month of fighting Amazon over gift cards.
My regular computer is ext4.
I assume my raspberry pi is ext4, but I've never checked what DietPi runs as default. It works fine.
My 720xd is ext4 on the OS drives, but the storage drives are ZFS with dual parity.
I wish I'd actually chosen a file system instead of just letting window's at the time default to NTFS for external drives.
Moving from Windows to Debian; NTFS has been nothing but a headache. I've actually had to setup a windows machine to serve that drive pool via SAMBA as Linux just won't play nicely with it.