Submitted 3 months ago by beefsquatch@programming.dev to selfhosted@lemmy.world
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?
Why are you running servers with a data store that you mount on multiple operating systems?
ZFS?
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?
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.
ZFS.
I just use ext4 on everything. It works pretty nicely.
It might be time to virtualize.
“*arr apps”?
Sonarr prowlarr radarr and many more. These are very powerful media download managers. I recommend using usenet.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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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
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).
It’s not hard on Debian
Use a network share
vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
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 complete, it’s the network. It’s that it’s there for.