[ale] Local File Storage options

Solomon Peachy pizza at shaftnet.org
Fri Aug 2 13:35:58 EDT 2019


On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 12:14:35PM -0400, Calvin Harrigan via Ale wrote:
> What would be the best filesystem option for sharing read/write access to
> these partitions?  I thought about using NTFS with ntfs-3g under linux, but
> because of the proprietary nature of NTFS, I'm reluctant.  I'm afraid of
> catastrophic filesystem failure in the event of a driver error.  

NTFS-3g is pretty mature and robust at this point.  But putting that 
aside, the more modern design of NTFS makes it perform better and handle 
everyday errors (eg unclean unmounting) than FAT32 ever could.

> VFAT(fat32) a viable option?  It officially has a limit of 32GB, though I
> know it can go as high as 2TB. 

The main limitation you're likely to run into is that a single file 
can't exceed 4GB.  (I tripped over that again just yesterday, in fact..)

IMO exFAT would be a better option than FAT32, but due to MS licensing 
regimes there's no "legal to use in patent-friendly jurisdictions" FOSS 
option on the Linux side.

So IMO just go with ntfs-3g for your shared partitions.  

 - Solomon
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Solomon Peachy			       pizza at shaftnet dot org
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