Interesting choice for NAS, why not the others that seem like better alternatives?
Well, as far as I know, BTRFS and ZFS are the recommended file systems for NAS's. They have self-healing capabilities so I can be slightly more sure that my data does not get corrupted over time.
Is self-healing process automated or you need to somehow enable it so it happens from time to time?
You have to run a so-called scrub command that checks for errors and tries to repair them. You can automate to run it every month or so
ext4 on everything except external drives where I put NTFS.
So you have a dual boot or Windows machines I'm guessing for any of these
I don't dual boot, I just have some other Windows machines that I use rarely for Windows-only software that require an external connection, like Odin for Samsung devices.
I wish I'd actually chosen a file system instead of just letting window's at the time default to NTFS for external drives.
Moving from Windows to Debian; NTFS has been nothing but a headache. I've actually had to setup a windows machine to serve that drive pool via SAMBA as Linux just won't play nicely with it.
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