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Pcghost 10-13-2003 04:47 PM
Which filesystem should I use for drives shared by Samba?
 
I just bought a 120GB drive for the purpose of sharing my Mp3,movie, and disk ISOs on my home network via Samba. My question is; Is there any performance or other advantage to using MS filesystems like Fat32 for the formating of a disk that is to be accessed by windows machines or does Samba negate the need for it?:confused:

Muddy 10-13-2003 04:49 PM
well I use ReiserFS and have had no troubles, runs fast and stable.
Access it from Xp, 2k, me and 98 no worries.

michaelk 10-13-2003 04:59 PM
You would only need a FAT32 partition if you were going to multiboot and need to share files between linux and windows.

You are correct samba negates the need.

Pcghost 10-13-2003 05:10 PM
cool. Now to decide between ext3 and reiserfs. Doh, damn Linux for making me think. :-)
Thanks...

Muddy 10-13-2003 08:38 PM
no thinking needed man, both are journaling file systems, but ReiserFS is faster. :-)


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