Can any of you share your opinion on formatting external JBOD Nas that can be accessed on win linux and mac osx without permissions? nearline or offline use mainly. Need to pick a format for Rocky linux, win11, mac osx for archival purposes. Permissions must not be a factor.
#hard drive formatting for linux / windows 10 & 11 / Mac osx on external NAS
willow nymph
nova leaf
Can any of you share your opinion on formatting external JBOD Nas that can be ac...
Your question is not clear, that is why nobody replied yet. If you have a NAS, a Network-Attached Storage, you usually access it via networking protovols like SMB/Samba, NFS or even SFTP. The format that the NAS internally uses is secondary - I will not say it does not matter, but the network clients connecting to it are only seeing their SMB/NFS/SFTP host, so those do not care.
So, is this actually a NAS, or are you planning on just using an external hard drive and attach it to these computers?
daring geyser
The format that the NAS internally uses is secondary - I will not say it does not matter, but the network clients connecting to it are only seeing their SMB/NFS/SFTP host, so those do not care.
just have it use NTFS if the brain controlling the NAS is windows-based
or use whatever filesystem the brain OS behind running the NAS wants to use natively
willow nymph
No it does not support mac Unix properly. Encoding is 1/2 problem
My 2 cents. Formatting external NAS, or other, is easier when laptops can administer them. The laptops are designed to straddle barriers to ingest.
That being said latest laptop cpu, exfat gives each OS access to storage. Pool should not be encrypted automatically, and permissions should be removed, as well as any OS indexing for read in and write outs/ ARCHIVE rules 101