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Re: Still Using esFAT

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On Thu, 19 Nov 2015 10:38:34 -0600
JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> wrote:

> On 2015-11-19, Justin <justin@nobecauseihatespam.edu> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
>    So does a Tivo.
>   
>    Neither is the totality of Linux.
> 
> [deletia]
> 
>    I find the idea of being in the same room with a network appliance
> to be a bit odd, nevermind the idea of directly physically
> manipulating it.

In an enteprise environment, you're almost correct.  At home and in
small businesses it makes perfect sense.  The fact is, Linux can't
support FAT64.
However, UDF looks promising.  I'm going to experiment with a 50GB file
later tonight.

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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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