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tarun.hellknight

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From: India

Registered: 2010-11-30

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Suggest filesystem for multimedia (TV Shows & Movies only) files

I got a new HDD, Samsung Green, 500 GB, SATA II @ 5400 rpm. I'll use this to basically store all my multimedia files (TV Shows & Movies, no music) which will be accessed via XBMC. Moreover, I may use it to store some VirtualBox disk images as well. This partition will also be shared by Debian 6.0 which I intend to install by allocating a little space (25 GB). So, in a nutshell, here's what the partition table is going to  look like :-

/dev/sdb1 = Debian, ext4 25 GB
/dev/sdb2 = XBMC, 441 GB

Now I need you guys to suggest me a filesystem for the XBMC partition. It will not be accessed by Windows. I was initially thinking of going the Btrfs way, but I think that it is still in unstable stage (according to Wikipedia). Ext4 is robust and tested. I was also eyeing XFS & Reiser4.

The conclusion is, I'm really confused. Help me out!!

The system is running on AMD Athlon II X4 640, 4 GB RAM & NVIDIA GTX 260 Core 216 & is pure 64-bit and fully updated.

Last edited by tarun.hellknight (2011-02-07 20:24:59)

litemotiv

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Registered: 2008-08-01

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Re: Suggest filesystem for multimedia (TV Shows & Movies only) files

Either ext4 or xfs will do fine, there are a few other threads about this on the forums so i would suggest to look around a bit.

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yngwin

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Registered: 2009-05-08

Posts: 67

Re: Suggest filesystem for multimedia (TV Shows & Movies only) files

XFS is designed for big media files. It would be an obvious choice.