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> The exFAT file system is not as fragile as anecdotes on the Internet may lead you to believe. ...based on author's guesses based on the data structures, not
by ilyt 4y ago
> The exFAT file system is not as fragile as anecdotes on the Internet may lead you to believe.
...based on author's guesses based on the data structures, not anything actually tested
- zinekeller 4y agoReadig the spec (and I've read it a few months before reading this article), I think that based on the specification alone it's actually a good-enough FS (it's not great, but it's good enough). But in practice, it's actually hard to write a reliable driver, especially if you haven't have any experience in the FAT family. It also has a problem in code maturity, especially that FAT32 code (and even NTFS code!) in differrent systems are battle-tested and not just spec-compatible but also bug-compatible, unlike exFAT which is only realistically been released only in 2019. P.S.: it still has that Y2100 hard limit in dates, I can't believe that MSFT haven't solved that one especially that it was created in 2001.
- ilyt 4y agoPersonally I don't see the reason why they even stuck with old design. Surely it isn't optimal for flash, and it isn't backward-compatible either.