[game_preservation] Archivist's Burden Redux

[Devin Monnens]

Sadly, M$ doesn't have a file format for very large files. Thankfully,
unless you're backing up DVDs, there's no need for a 4GB+ file. (or is it
1GB where the discs must be Windows-only?)

On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org>wrote:


> Yeah, I wish there was a good, journalled, cross-OS compatible filesystem

> for external drives/pendrives. I've got all of mine in NTFS with relevant

> system drivers installed on my Macbook, mainly because I primarily use

> Windows and Fat32 doesn't support large files and isn't very reliable

> (having seen the file table corrupted a few times essentially wiping that

> partition).

>

> Andrew

>

> Mike Melanson wrote:

>

>> When I reformat this 750 GB RAID-1 box... what filesystem should I use? :)

>> Eh, I'll probably just go with the default Mac OS journaling FS.

>>

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