The best filesystem for backing up on external hard drive

filesystems

I have a 1TB consumer grade NAS and I can use whatever file system I please on it. I only plan to ever use it with linux based systems, so windows compatibility is not really a priority. What is the best file system for archiving? JFS? Ext3? Ext4? btrfs?

Best Answer

ext4 with journaling turned on and delayed allocation (dealloc) turned off. The extents (introduced in ext4, but also available in xfs) will speed up dealing with large files--which I assume you'll be using.