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Not wanting to be tangential but is exFAT any good? And what do others use for a cross platform file system? I sadly had to format a portable 600GB drive as
by inthewind 13y ago
Not wanting to be tangential but is exFAT any good? And what do others use for a cross platform file system? I sadly had to format a portable 600GB drive as FAT32 the other day, just so it would play ball across OSs and devices. I went to use extFAT, then realised I'd have to use FUSE to get it to work so fell back to FAT32.
Also is it backwards compatible with the other FATS; as in can't you read an ext4 as ext3 (hoping that I haven't made that up)?
- archagon 13y agoFrom what I understand (somebody correct me), exFAT is prone to corruption if you unplug an exFAT drive without doing a soft eject first. On the other hand, it's probably the best FS that's natively supported by both OSX and Windows.
- 0x0 13y agoIt's also significant because it is a part of the SDXC standard.
- mariuolo 13y agoProblem is FAT32 can't handle anything beyond 4GiB (or 32 with some trickery) and we've reached that limit. Would you rather use a journaling FS on a flash drive?
- cbhl 13y agoNo. Flash drives are slow enough to write to without having to write things (even metadata) twice.
- csense 13y agoWhat about NTFS?