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Can you explain what you mean by "portable data storage"? I'm used to hearing the word "portable" used to mean "cross platform", but if it is not supported wel
by cout 5y ago
Can you explain what you mean by "portable data storage"? I'm used to hearing the word "portable" used to mean "cross platform", but if it is not supported well under Linux, then given how widely used Linux is, I would think ntfs would not count as cross platform.
- tasogare 5y agoLinux on the desktop (where portability of file system matters) is 2% at the very best. Hardly what one would call "widely used".
- Macha 5y agoHonestly ntfs-3g is fine. It's slow, which I'd always blamed on NTFS since NTFS is also clearly slow for large directories of small files on Windows also, but apparently this new driver is better in that regard.
- Sebb767 5y agoI'm pretty sure that the grandparent meant portable quite literally, as in you can take it with you. Things like USB sticks, external hard drives, sd cards etc..
- cout 5y agoThat was the impression I was getting, hence my question. But since thumb drives typically come preformatted in either FAT32 or exFAT, I thought maybe there was a third possible use of the word "portable" that I am unfamiliar with.
- Delk 5y agoExternal hard drives with larger capacities and potentially larger files might be a use case for NTFS. While it isn't fast, ntfs-3g has worked fine for basic use for me. Someone said in another comment that ntfs-3g is unmaintained, though, which was news to me, and obviously not a great thing if true. I suppose exFAT might be a viable option for larger external drives as well due to its higher file size limit. None of the other commonly used file systems (including native Linux file systems) seemed easy to use from both Linux and Windows the last time I looked into it.