Hard drive format

[superfly]

How should external drives being plugged into the Pogo be formatted? NTFS, HFS, ext3? Does it matter? What would be pros and cons of each? Thanks in advance!

[WarheadsSE]

You will get the best performance out of ext3 drives.

[superfly]

By performance you mean speeds? Is ext3 readable by osx just invade I had to plug it in to my computer for any reason and access the files?

[WarheadsSE]

Ext3 will get you the best performance/bang-for-buck on the plug itself. Not owning a single Apple device, you'd have to ask someone else. I figure there is a driver however.

[mrsteveman1]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('superfly', 'B')y performance you mean speeds? Is ext3 readable by osx just invade I had to plug it in to my computer for any reason and access the files?

[dinjo]

The results do show ext4 is faster on a normal linux machine but not sure whether it can max out performance on pogo when compared to ext3

[telzey]

Here's another vote for ext3.

There are some significant changes between the old 2.6.31.6 oxnas ext4 kernel source from Pogoplug and the newer 2.6.31.14 oxnas ext4 kernel source from Iomega and Medion.

That would worry me if I were planning to use ext4 with the current archlinuxarm oxnas kernel.

NTFS is definitely slow.

XFS is reported broken on Pogoplug's 2.6.31.6 but is probably working on 2.6.31.14 since Iomega actually ship the HMNDCE with xfs partitions.

ext3 is old, extremely debugged, and performs well.

I believe that one of the web pages mentioned before suggests using either the commercial Paragon ext3 software for the Mac, or possibly installing a small linux virtual machine running Debian or Ubuntu for free.

[WarheadsSE]

LiveCDs work well.

[firefoxPL]

unfortunately OS X doesn't support any ext2/3/4 file systems natively, I've found this http://fuse4x.org/faq.html and it looks promising, I'll probably give it a try through macports since I've setup time machine ext4 disk on a pogo-p24 yesterday and it would be good to have acces to it other than AFP