Best filesystem to use for a specific type of application

[Liam Proven]

On 15 February 2012 15:46, Ioannis Vranos <ioannis.vranos at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Not wanting to start an argument here, however AFAIK, NTFS has no
> ability "to defrag the HDD", it just gets badly fragmented, and a user
> defragmentation application/service is available to defrag it. Also it
> takes a lot of time to perform a filesystem check.

NT offers an API explicitly for defragging.

> NTFS is a 1993-era filesystem. I suggest the OP use ext4 instead,
> unless he has some very specific needs, like reading the filesystem
> under Windows.

It is aging & MS is introducing a replacement, but 2012 NTFS is not
the same as 1993 NTFS. It is on at least version 5 now, I believe.


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