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jellybeard999

jellybeard999

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I have a Windows file server which I am considering changing to Linux (Xubuntu at the moment). I currently have my drives formatted in NTFS and want to keep the data.

Are there any issues leaving them formatted in NTFS? I've heard it isn't reliable in Linux; is there any truth in this?

Advice would be appreciated :)
 
I'm not so sure reliability is the problem - I have a server at home running Linux which has an NTFS drive in it and it works fine... However it doesn't perform as well - I just got a new microserver and the drive in that is formatted with ZFS, and I get higher speeds when transferring files to and from it...
 
uncle_rufus said:
I'm not so sure reliability is the problem - I have a server at home running Linux which has an NTFS drive in it and it works fine... However it doesn't perform as well - I just got a new microserver and the drive in that is formatted with ZFS, and I get higher speeds when transferring files to and from it...
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What sort of speeds do you get on the NTFS drive? It's primarily streaming media, so doesn't need to be mega fast, but I'd hope to get near the speeds Im getting at the moment over gigabit ethernet.
 
It's plenty fast enough to serve up files, no problems there... I haven't really benchmarked speeds unfortunately - just anecdotally it feels like the ZFS server is faster
 
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