Hi 2TB per file correct? Which is no issue at all with music files.
james
Two TB filesystem size I think is what is meant and is correct. 4GB is the limit on individual file size. All this with NO protection from file corruption and data loss. It's a shame that were it not for USB sticks and such, FAT and FAT32 would have gone the way of the dodo a while back. Unfortunately, the two FATs can be read by any OS so they stayed and there is no current good candidate to replace them that can be read by all OS'es used including cellphone OS's. Microsoft flatly stated years ago that corruption begins at 600MB on fat filesystems, at least in one of their engineering courses I took it was stated plainly as fact. With the size of high resolution FLAC files much less wav files, this size is easily approached on long tracks. It was absolutely necessary to come up with NTFS for themselves, as they needed a journaled filesystem with very high limits and no crosslinked file corruption (FAT filesystems are notorious for this) and of course some performance. I believe IBM played a role in NTFS development but they also have their excellent JFS filesystem.
My favorite for multimedia file storage and serving across the network is XFS hands down. EXT3 or any EXT filesystem for that matter are my least favorite in Linux for ANY type of use but better than FAT by a long way. It's mainly there for compatibility and standardization and it's not great at any one attribute but not horrible either. Basically they plopped a Journal onto EXT2 so you could easily convert volumes from the 90's into a journaled filesystem and conversely take an old 90's system and mount EXT3 as EXT2 with ease if needed. When moving large files to and from a RAID5 server using EXT3 there were many errors. Not so with XFS. For the OS itself and NOT multimedia storage I prefer Reiser 3.6 despite the rather ugly turn Hans Reiser's life took. Only the future of version 4 is in question at this point, not 3.6. It's just so darn fast with small read/writes it's amazing and I can compile code in less than half the time on a Reiser volume than I can on any of the EXT systems including EXT4. Boot times can be fast as well but there are many other things that can affect boot speed so it's not absolute. There's just no one single perfect filesystem for all uses. The right tool for the job applies to filesystems as well.
By the way, I was an Audiophile long before I was a computer geek and even long before I became an Avionics Tech. Audio was my first real love as far as hobbies and I always return to it.
