Re: Filesystem format for external hard disk

["Bryn M. Reeves" <bmr@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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On 05/31/2012 04:01 PM, Jeff Gipson wrote:
> 
>> I have already an external disk formatted with ext3, but for
>> safety reasons I am now wanting to have two external disks with
>> the same backups. When I formatted the first external disk, I did
>> not know about ext4 (only knew about ext3). So, from what you are
>> suggestion, ext4 is superior to ext3?
> 
> For your purposes, very most likely not.

I tend to encourage people to pick ext4 over ext3 on modern hardware
and software.

Aside from some clear performance wins for not-that-uncommon workloads
(deleting lots of large files, storing large images etc) there's the
fact that most of the attention upstream these days is going into ext4
- - the earlier ext* file systems are pretty much in maintenance mode today.

Regards,
Bryn.
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