[Ardour-Users] Audio drive - file system?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 2012-08-20 at 14:17 +0100, Noel Darlow wrote:
> Hi
> 
> > >  Okay, so i am now considering a seperate external drive for the
> > > audio file. Which file system should i format in?
> 
> XFS is a good filesystem for media (ie large) files on a dedicated AV
> partition. More here:
> 
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/XFS_Filesystem

That's the Wiki, but could you please explain why somebody should use
something exotic?