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> Windows then you have to use one of those filesystems. I can appreciate that's true if the client systems are not under your control, but if you have influen
by mdaniel 4y ago
> Windows then you have to use one of those filesystems.
I can appreciate that's true if the client systems are not under your control, but if you have influence over all systems that will touch the drives, I've had good experiences with OpenZFS which has drivers for all 3 major OSes: Linux, macOS, Windows
One just needs to be cautious not to use bleeding-edge features because the ZFS release cycles differ, but otherwise so far it has done fine for me
- adrian_b 4y agoThe system with Windows is more likely to be a company-owned computer, or a computer owned by some friend, acquaintance or colleague, on which you cannot install file system drivers, so exFAT is the best bet for compatibility. If it is your own computer, then you either are a Windows user or you prefer other operating systems, in which case you would wipe Windows and install something else. In both cases you do not need to transfer data between operating systems, so you can use on external memories NTFS for Windows or XFS, ZFS etc. for Linux.
- toast0 4y ago> If it is your own computer, then you either are a Windows user or you prefer other operating systems That fits me, if it's inclusive or. Windows is a pretty OK desktop environment, and mostly gets the better tested mass market software. On the other hand, I prefer other operating systems for doing "real work". I don't usually need to transfer data via external storage though, but if I did, I might consider installing a filesystem driver/tool on my Windows machines to have a better time of it. OTOH, I might just use par2 or something on top of a readily available filesystem.