I’m setting up a new hard drive and formatted it as exFAT. I liked the cross platform support and not having to deal with permissions when mounting the device. BUT it doesn’t support hardlinks, which I want to use for the *arr apps. Is NTFS the best pick, and I’ll just have to live with read only on mac?
I’m a huge fan of XFS for network mounts. I think everyone else here is right that the best filesystem will depend on the OS, and picking one to make it compatible with everything has serious tradeoffs.
Why specifically are you a fan of XFS for network mounts?
Ohhh I didn’t realize it didn’t matter if it was accessed over the network with samba. This’ll just be on a Debian server
Yeah, so in that case I’d just use ext4 or, if you want checksums, btrfs (though this doesn’t matter too much as btrfs currently doesn’t support raid in any real sense, so it can’t actually correct the data, just tell you it’s bad).
ZFS can do the checksums with RAID and error correction, but getting that on Linux (without using a specialty distro like TrueNAS Scale) is still a pain.
It’s not hard on Debian
Huh, TIL…
“*arr apps”?