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Meanwhile, me running my whole Steam library off ZFS over NFS 😅
That sounds… slow. How is it working out?
NFS can achieve very high speeds. Unsurprisingly the biggest bottleneck is network bandwidth but if you have 10G or more dedicated it’ll be fine
Yes, high total throughout, but latency would be bad, no? So things like dynamically loading new areas would behave more like a HDD instead of a RAID or local SSD.
I mean…Linux now has a good, mainlined NTFS driver. Sure you could use exfat, but even if you don’t plan ahead NTFS works fine nowadays
There were a lot of problems getting proton to work on NTFS, but that’s only because the COMPATDATA directory must not be located on NTFS. Worked fine the moment you symlinked COMPATDATA to your ext4 drive.
There was a time, where this problem got discussed almost weekly on reddit.
yeah, those were the days I got into Linux gaming and I was dual booting with steam games on ntfs partition. Pain, only pain
That mainlined ntfs driver is fast but occasionally drilles holes in ntfs so I have to chkdsk on Windows. Also NTFS is not mount & play, you need to configure it with right permissions etc.
The problem is that the way NTFS works will not allow you to do symlinks and there are some permissions issues.
There are some workarounds but these might still cause issues.
Wait, why not? I’ve been doing this for a few games so I can play on Linux or boot to Windows and play there if I need more reliable remote play or better performance. I haven’t had any major issues, just annoying occasional proton reinstallation when I’m in Linux.
Ah I wish I read that sooner, when the ntfs3 driver was released I moved my games to an NTFS partition, i don’t remember precisely but some wouldn’t work, and then unlike my ext4 or btrfs partition which were unbreakable, a lot of things became unreadable and undeletable after a forced shutdown. Probably my fault, but in any case i think it’s not worth the hassle. I only had games on it fortunately so didn’t lose anything significant
…and now I’m planning on making a btrfs partition for my games and using winbtrfs to use it on windows as well, probably another bad idea but I wanna do it so badlybadly
EDIT: Yup, it was a bad idea, sometimes getting blue screens when trying to empty the trash on the btrfs
