Re: Still Using esFAT

From	Justin <justin@nobecauseihatespam.edu>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.advocacy, comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject	Re: Still Using esFAT
Date	2015-11-19 09:21 -0500
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<n2klpa$ml4$3@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 20:19:14 -0600
JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> wrote:

> On 2015-11-18, Justin <justin@nobecauseihatespam.edu> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
>     Clearly the meaning of N in NAS has escaped you.
> 
>     The fact that Synology may or may not support exFAT has no bearing
> on whether or not Linux in general does.

Are you normally this dense or are you trying extra hard today?
Synology runs Linux.
Synology does not support FAT64.  This is a fact, Google is your friend.
Therefore the fact Linux doesn't support exFAT does have a bearing on
this "discussion."

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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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