I am migrating everything to mac! So I d like to have uniformity in everything, so I was just reading a bit on HFS+ thinking that this was my way to go up until reading this on wikipedia:
"HFS Plus also uses a full 32-bit allocation mapping table, rather than HFS’s 16 bits. This was a serious limitation of HFS, meaning that no disk could support more than 65,536 allocation blocks under HFS. When disks were small, this was of little consequence, but as larger-capacity drives became available, it meant that the smallest amount of space that any file could occupy (a single allocation block) became excessively large, wasting significant amounts of space. For example, on a 1 GB disk, the allocation block size under HFS is 16 KB, so even a 1 byte file would take up 16 KB of disk space."
At the beginning I said, ok so, what but considering more carefully the impications and considering I am aiming at a 4 tb disk raid set this can prove disastrous....
Should I go for ext3 instead?
Any advice?
Also, can time machine work on any wifi nas or do I have to use time capsule?
"HFS Plus also uses a full 32-bit allocation mapping table, rather than HFS’s 16 bits. This was a serious limitation of HFS, meaning that no disk could support more than 65,536 allocation blocks under HFS. When disks were small, this was of little consequence, but as larger-capacity drives became available, it meant that the smallest amount of space that any file could occupy (a single allocation block) became excessively large, wasting significant amounts of space. For example, on a 1 GB disk, the allocation block size under HFS is 16 KB, so even a 1 byte file would take up 16 KB of disk space."
At the beginning I said, ok so, what but considering more carefully the impications and considering I am aiming at a 4 tb disk raid set this can prove disastrous....
Should I go for ext3 instead?
Any advice?
Also, can time machine work on any wifi nas or do I have to use time capsule?