Best Filesystem for Large Media Files?

megagram · 2008-09-12 23:41:40

Hey all! I have a mediacentre PC running Arch with a 1GB drive for all of my media files.

It is about 85% full. It has many large and small video files, MP3s, photos etc but that's all. fsck.ext3 takes about 15 or more minutes to scan this drive. Is this normal for Ext3 drives?

I'm wondering if perhaps ext3 wasn't designed for very large (~10gb) files. It's definitely not the quantity of files on the drive as there are far less than the OS drive. Maybe it's just the overall size of the FS?

Are there better filesystems that are more efficient when dealing with this type of file layout? That won't take so long to run fsck?

Thanks a lot!

haxit · 2008-09-12 23:44:39

1 gb drive. Don't you mean 1tb
In my opinion, to be safe I would stick with ext3.

Phrodo_00 · 2008-09-13 01:40:16

xfs was specially designed for that, I'm using it pretty succesfully in a music nas at my work.

fukawi2 · 2008-09-13 08:38:13

In all benchmark tests I've read, XFS consistantly performs best with large files (ie, media files).

XFS is a mature and stable file system - I would definately choose it over ext3 personally.

Army · 2008-09-13 09:19:54

Me too, xfs is amazing with large files! ext3 would be my second choice.

Procyon · 2008-09-13 11:35:46

About XFS, are image files (>100KB) considered large too?

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Best Filesystem for Large Media Files?

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