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Using exFAT under macOS over a period of a few years led to several of my drives becoming corrupted. I have not had issues since I switched away from exFAT, and
by Wowfunhappy 3y ago
Using exFAT under macOS over a period of a few years led to several of my drives becoming corrupted. I have not had issues since I switched away from exFAT, and I am now convinced that macOS's exFAT driver is unacceptably terrible.
If you need a multiplatform filesystem for a thumb drive or small portable hard drive, I have had success with UDF. Surprisingly so, given that it's basically a hack. See: https://github.com/JElchison/format-udf https://github.com/JElchison/format-udf. This basically won't work on drives over 2TB, however.
- efrecon 3y agoI second that. At a past job we picked UDF for being the only format that would work across all platforms. That was before ExFAT got everywhere, but still seems like a good choice.
- goodburb 3y agoUseful comparison: https://www.sami-lehtinen.net/blog/exfat-extended-file-allocation-table-vs-udf-universal-disk-format-file-system-for-flash-drives https://www.sami-lehtinen.net/blog/exfat-extended-file-alloc...
- Wowfunhappy 3y agoThe note about the partition table makes me wonder how he was formatting the drive. https://github.com/JElchison/format-udf https://github.com/JElchison/format-udf specifically does some partition table related hacks to make UDF maximally compatible with different platforms.
- goodburb 3y agoLargest issue seems to be regarding corruptions, BSD platforms seems the only ones to include updated UDF file system check/repair tools.