Re: Recommendation for filesystem for USB external drive for backups
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On Thursday, August 13, 2020 2:50 PM, Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:
> D. R. Evans wrote:
>
> > Greg Wooledge wrote on 8/13/20 2:29 PM:
> >
> > > The simplest answer would be to use ext4.
> >
> > I concur, given the OP's use case. And I speak as someone who raves about ZFS
> > at every reasonable opportunity :-)
>
> Also concur. But by all means buy a spare drive and experiment
> with ZFS -- just not on live data.
Two for sure and put them in a RAID1 -- formatted ext4. And watch that mdstat.
And a third or fourth to see if you can get ZFS going.
--
Glenn English
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