Re: Filesystem for backup system

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Hi,

On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 5:58 PM,  <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 10Oct2016 15:59, Michael Cronenworth <mike@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On 10/10/2016 03:50 PM, Alex wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Where did you read that? AFAIK the default continues to be ext4.
>>>
>>> I thought I recalled it being the default during install the last time
>>> I performed one.
>>
>>
>> The Fedora Server installation defaults to XFS. Workstation defaults to
>> ext4.
>>
>> For your use case either filesystem will work. Use what you are
>> comfortable with. Both are stable, supported, and will give you full
>> performance from your setup.
>
>
> Use XFS. It is stable; never needs fsck. If ext4 needs to repair it will
> take days/weeks on a filesystem that size, and need insane amounts of RAM
> (if the NAS is hosting this, it may not have much RAM).
>
> Both will work until you need to fsck (eg power outage or other
> instant/unclean shutdown). After that, you will wish you were using XFS.

Awesome, thanks guys.
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