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HI,

I’m trying something new. Since ext4 became available I have always used it, it’s time to experiment some.

For a usb hard drive to store torrents on what are the pluses and or minus’s between ext4 and xfs?

it can be a matter of opinion and everyone’s is somewhat different but all conclusions recommendations are valued on this!

greg

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USB denotes a family of protocols and hardware to connect external devices to computers. They do not figure highly in file-system choice.

You should consider:

  • Interoperability – how well the likely connected operating systems are supported.
  • Storage Media (SSD, magnetic discs and tape, flash memory and hybrids) – some filesystems tune better than others.
  • Reliability – do you want/need journaling and or good recovery tools?
  • Data structures – especially size and number of directories (indexes) and files.
  • Permissions (owners and group etc.) support.

Also consider Btrfs – snapshots are not essential.