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duoser
Oct 04, 2011Aspirant
Supported filesystems for USB drive
I've seen that ReadyNAS Duo can make a FAT32 or an Ext3 filesystem on my USB drive, but I would prefer another FS. Is there any other FS supported for R/W access on usb drives ? I tried to use a...
siigna
Nov 17, 2011NETGEAR Employee Retired
No ext4 support on the sparc NAS'. Your only options are going to be ext2/3, FAT32 or NTFS for external disks. ext2/3 is the best bet, FAT32 is nice but you've got character limits and no files over 4gb, NTFS is dog slow on the sparc NAS'.
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