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File system question.

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utekineir

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I've been thinking of setting up some sort of network storage at my house recently to store all the media (movies, music, etc) for my house. Right now i'm leaning toward setting it up on an old computer for cost reasons, though that $600 4 drive box one of the companies makes is real appealing too.

My main question with doing any of this is file systems. I want the drives to be able to be read and written to from os x on my mac book pro, and also from win xp on the other pc's in the house.

I know this can be done with fat32... but fat 32 seems to have awful fragmentation issues among other limitations. Is there a file system i could setup and use with less drawbacks that both windows and mac would have full file access on (read and write) ?
 
if you are actually using a PC to host these files, you can export them via Samba/ SMB and both OSs should be able to read/ write regardless of the underlying filesystem.
 
What OS are you putting on the storage box? If it's win2k or XP there's no reason not to go NTFS as was stated above. The OS on the host box handles all the requests, the client does not need to be able to read or write to NTFS.

There are so many ways to go about a setup like this depending on OS choice, security preferences, etc...
 
Use FreeNAS as the OS on the machine that will be serving files, and then use NFS to share them with your OSX machine, and any Windows clients can be served via Samba. The disks would be formatted with UFS in this scenario as it would be running FreeBSD. Since this would be a networked setup, the servers OS/file system doesn't matter since it would be "interpreted" on that machine.
 
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