Which filesystem should I use for drives shared by Samba?

Pcghost · 10-13-2003, 04:47 PM

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?

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. :-)