File systems

[snakeling]

Hi! I just plugged in a second hard drive on which I intend to rip Blu-Rays (I've legally bought). I'm booting from the first HD, and mostly this second HD will be a subset of ~/home.

I now need to format the HD, but I'm not sure which file system to use. I've had a look at Wikipedia, but it's more confusing than anything.

I need a filesystem that supports very large files (at least 200Gb), that plays nice with the last version of Ubuntu and that's reasonably quick since I'll be playing those very large files at some point.

Would ext4 be right for my needs, or should I go with another?

Thanks!

Comments

[doldonius]

200Gb is not much these days. Any modern FS can do the trick. However, I'd try XFS first. In my experience, it's slightly faster than the ext2&3 when you need to handle lots of huge files. Haven't tried ext4 yet, though.

Since your disk is empty right now, you might just try several file systems (I'd test as least ext4, XFS, and JFS) using the same data and processing cycle, and see which one suits your specific needs best.

[snakeling]

My brother's recommending xfs too, so I think I'll go with it :)

[siliconshaman]

NTFS usually does ok with Ubuntu as secondary drive, as far as I know support for it is already enabled in 11.04 [unlike previous versions.]

[snakeling]

I don't use Windows at all, so I'd prefer to keep it to native Linux FS.