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File system help needed

Linflas

Linflas

Lifer
We use ZENworks imaging where I work in conjunction with Novell Netware servers. I have been experimenting "outside the box" trying to save and restore images to local disks. Everything is fine until I get images greater than 4GB which is the limit that vfat (FAT32) can deal with. What I want to do is format a WD 500GB drive with a Linux filesystem that is capable of containing files greater that 4GB in size. What would be my best choice for this? Thanks much in advance.
 
All native Linux filesystems will hold files >4G. ext3 is the most compatible and a good middle ground, but I prefer an tend to use XFS whenever possible.
 
Thanks I'm going to try this when I get back from vacation. I did figure out another way to do this by mounting a share using smbfs filetype but it would still be nice to be able to use the USB drive as an alternative.
 
I use XFS for large files for my OS images (4-20gb). I notice a huge performance deleting large files vs ext3. I use ext3 for everything else.
 
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