best file system for external storage?

[Nish]

I have an older USB Mybook for storing recorded tv shows until I have a chance to watch them and to keep data until I burn it to CD/DVD - both of which can take a couple of months until I get round to it    I will be regularly copying very large files to it and then deleting them. Is there any merit to using something other than good old ext3?

[jaydot]

probably ext4.  it appears to be stable and has had good reports on stability and functionality.  see what those who are using it say.

i'm considering ext4 for my new pclinuxos install when the final is released.

[T6]

it depends on what you do with the device

if you use it on multiple platforms(windows/linux) fat32 or ntfs but if all you do is linux capable ext3/4 is perfect

[Nish]

Was just thinking of going with ext3 for the storage in case I never get my tuner card (don't ask) working in linux and have to continue to use windows for recording.  There is a program for windows to write to ext3 but not sure if ext4 supported yet.  When I get busy at work/life and dont' have time to watch these things I would like to move off to an external.  Cannot do for now as the mybook is fat32 and most of the video files are around 10GB.

[T6]

those conditions limit your options to ext3 and ntfs

about ext4 and the windows driver for ext partitions i remember problems with ext4 but i haven't verified the state of that driver in many months, from some comments in sourceforge and fs-driver seems to be that nothing has changed

http://www.fs-driver.org/

there are other ext driver solutions but at the moment none supports ext4

[Nish]

In a holding pattern over a lot of things.  Waiting for 2010, KDE4, hoping to get my tuner card working in linux while I still have any clear QAM channels to record !   I will probably be using windows for recording for quite awhile still 

Unless ext3 is woefully inferior to ext4, ext3 it will be.