I have a slow external HDD that I want to use for storing large files as well as databases. Since I want the files to be accessible from both Linux and, when required, Windows, I need to use a file system that both understand. From what I can see, what fits the bill are NTFS and UDF, also possibly ext3 (FAT32 is right out due to file size limitations). All three of them have similar features, and thus I don't prefer either one of them over the other (only perhaps ext3 is lower on the list due to needing an extra driver; I'm not even certain if it still works on Win10). Therefore, in order to determine what I should use, I decided to do it the benchmarking way!
I'll be doing the comparison on a laptop that has openSUSE 13.2 as well as Windows 10 installed. The HDD will be reformatted for each test using GPartEd, because Windows is stupid and doesn't understand multiple partitions for external media anyway. I'll use PTS, and only cross-platform tests will be run. I'll publish the results here.
If you have any suggestions before I start, do tell. One thing that would be good to know is which tests make sense to run. I know some tests have a hilarious amount of options and thus take days to do; I would probably rather avoid those. For the start I'll use Michael's filesystem tests as a reference, I think.
I'll be doing the comparison on a laptop that has openSUSE 13.2 as well as Windows 10 installed. The HDD will be reformatted for each test using GPartEd, because Windows is stupid and doesn't understand multiple partitions for external media anyway. I'll use PTS, and only cross-platform tests will be run. I'll publish the results here.
If you have any suggestions before I start, do tell. One thing that would be good to know is which tests make sense to run. I know some tests have a hilarious amount of options and thus take days to do; I would probably rather avoid those. For the start I'll use Michael's filesystem tests as a reference, I think.
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