Filesystem format for external hard disk

[Thibault Nélis]

On 05/31/2012 05:09 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
> 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.

Yep, most of the FUD around ext4 has long been obsolete now.
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