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Re: Still Using esFAT

From Justin <justin@nobecauseihatespam.edu>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.advocacy, comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: Still Using esFAT
Date 2015-11-18 16:16 -0500
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <20151118161635.0547b7b3@Justins-MacBook-Pro> (permalink)
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On Tue, 17 Nov 2015 19:28:25 -0500
Slimer <.m@nsn.s> wrote:

> On 2015-11-17 7:04 PM, Peter Köhlmann wrote:
> > Slimer wrote:
> > 
> >> On 2015-11-17 2:23 PM, Justin wrote:
> >>> So yeah.  Is using exFAT on portable drives still considered evil
> >>> or what?  I forget the reasoning behind why it was such a crime
> >>> against humanity.
> >>>
> >>> http://postimg.org/image/76lgfetcl/
> >>
> >> For compatibility purposes, exFAT is clearly one of the better
> >> choices out there.
> > 
> > exFAT is a castrated NTFS. A very bad choice. 
> 
> If all that you're looking for is compatibility, it's fine. Is there
> an operating system that CAN'T read exFAT? It's clearly not the best
> in terms of capabilities though.
> 

Yeah, Linux.
Example: Synology NAS (based on linux) can't read it.

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Still Using esFAT Justin <justin@nobecauseihatespam.edu> - 2015-11-17 19:23 +0000
  Re: Still Using esFAT chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2015-11-17 14:09 -0600
    Re: Still Using esFAT Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-11-17 18:39 -0500
  Re: Still Using esFAT Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-17 22:24 +0000
    Re: Still Using esFAT Justin <justin@nobecauseihatespam.edu> - 2015-11-18 03:03 +0000
    Re: Still Using esFAT Justin <justin@nobecauseihatespam.edu> - 2015-11-18 16:03 +0000
  Re: Still Using esFAT Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-11-17 18:39 -0500
    Re: Still Using esFAT Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2015-11-18 01:04 +0100
      Re: Still Using esFAT Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-11-17 19:28 -0500
        Re: Still Using esFAT Justin <justin@nobecauseihatespam.edu> - 2015-11-18 16:16 -0500
          Re: Still Using esFAT JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2015-11-18 20:19 -0600
            Re: Still Using esFAT Justin <justin@nobecauseihatespam.edu> - 2015-11-19 09:21 -0500
              Re: Still Using esFAT JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2015-11-19 10:38 -0600
                Re: Still Using esFAT Justin <justin@nobecauseihatespam.edu> - 2015-11-19 16:38 -0500
                Re: Still Using esFAT Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2015-11-19 18:25 -0500
                Re: Still Using esFAT JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2015-11-20 14:15 -0600
      Still Using exFAT (spelling corrected) Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2015-11-18 06:02 -0500
      Re: Still Using esFAT Justin <justin@nobecauseihatespam.edu> - 2015-11-18 15:52 +0000
  Re: Still Using esFAT owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-11-18 00:34 +0000
    Re: Still Using esFAT Justin <justin@nobecauseihatespam.edu> - 2015-11-18 02:56 +0000
      Re: Still Using esFAT owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-11-18 18:10 +0000

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