control: reassign -1 src:linux On 2022-01-06 16:07, Mats Lundström wrote: > Package: buildd.debian.org
exfat support is provided by the kernel and has nothing to do with buildd.debian.org. Reassigning the bug there. > Severity: important > X-Debbugs-Cc: t...@digitronics.se > > Dear Maintainer, > > > * What led up to the situation? > > I am trying to migrate from Windows to Linux due to security, performance and > hardware compatibility issues. Some of the software that I use, are available > both in > Linux and Windows, so I have been doing some performance tests. Fastest is > Linux (tried Lubuntu, Ubuntu and Debian and it don't matter which one), just > followed by > Windows 7. Windows 10 is way behind, due to constant external communication > with unknown source (have seen this clearly at my work) and sometimes forced > reboots due > to forced system updates (this can't be tured off in Windows 10 ...) The > latter is a problem, when running software 24/7 that can't resume properly at > reboot without > manual interaction. If this happen when at work or during the night, the > computer will idle. Windows 7 (SP1) is in many ways better than Windows 10, > but have issues > when trying to install it on newer systems. (Systems with i5/i7/i9 and > chipset Z490/Z590 blocks any Windows 7 installation ...) With 35.5 years of > [prof.] hardware > and software experience, I am still convinced that Windows 7 is the best > Windows version, despite some would say that it lacks security. By own > experience, Windows > 10 isn't actually any better though, but rather worse. > > > * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? > > I do stuff, including professional work related, that still are only possible > on Windows computers. Therefore I intend to create a dual boot system and > need a hard > drive with data, that can be read properly by both Linux and Windows. A hard > drive that uses NTFS have issues in Linux and a hard drive that uses ext4 is > basically > ignored in Windows (it detects all the partitions though). Using the hard > drive with exFAT via USB works, but have stability, mechanical and formost > performance > issues - no go. > > > * What was the outcome of this action? > > A complete 'read only' status, that can not be changed what so ever, even > logged in as root. Owner of the drive is 'root' and can not be changed > either. Have tried > to fix the problem with a number of HDD utilities, but none of them can do > much at all. (Installing a Debian based OS has not been easy, because of > reports of assumed > PCIe [8086:xxxx - lost this specific address, unfortunally ...] and MMIO > errors with the i9/Z590 system. OS's like Windows, CentOS/Red Hat, OpenSUSE > do not detect > this at all ... OpenSUSE have severe issues with Nvidia drivers ...) Files > can be copied to the system drive and edited there, but can only be copied > back as a > duplicate copy. Soon the hard drive will be filled with a number of copies > ... (The fastest way to fix this, is to clean up in Windows ...) Have tried > to transfer > the data to new hard drive, to exclude any issues with the hard drive itself, > but no difference. > > > * What outcome did you expect instead? > > A 'read/write' status. This is somewhat surprising that exFAT has not been > included earlier, as the standard has existed since 2006. A hard drive that > only can be > used as 'read only' makes no sense. > > > Regards > > Mats Lundström -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net
