Hi again, all -- The last thing I need to figure out for my happy new system is what FS to use. I've been a big fan of Reiser for a long time (although I haven't kept up with any development news), but ext3 (as ext2 + journal) is a solid standard and drivers and utils are available under Windows (and in fact I have in the past put such things in a tiny DOS-fs slice at the back end of the disk) for "just in case". There are others (no, I'm not considering NTFS :-) out there, too, that I haven't even met. Now that I've met SuSE Studio, though, and shouldn't have to worry about booting from some random live ISO in the event of a system crash, maybe it's time to just pick the best FS for my needs. This will be primarily a large-disk (~4T or, via striping, perhaps ~5T) data storage system for backups, media, and other fun stuff; I don't expect lots of dynamic activity as on a desktop or compiling system but instead figure I'll see large write batches (backups, copies, etcetc) and mostly sequential reads, but we'll have mostly small and medium files and probably not a lot of really big files. The disks themselves will hold content and be fairly static; my SuSE Studio boot image goes on a uSD card in a USB slot and that's where any /tmp or other work will be. I'll probably end up running a small web server as well as samba, but again that shouldn't affect the spinning bits. Any thoughts, shy of religious warfare, on the best FS to use for a data and archive server? [I promise this is it for me for today ;-] TIA again & HAND :-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt