On 2016-08-30, Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> ext2 is on every system, Unless it isn't. There's nothing in Gentoo that guarantees everybody has ext2 support in their kernels. That said, I agree that ext2 (or perhaps ext3 with journalling disabled -- I've always been a bit fuzzy on whether that's exactly the same thing or not) is as close to a "universal" Linux filesystem as you're going to get. I would guess that the percentage of Gentoo systems that suport ext2/3 is _way_ _way_ higher than the percentage that support exfat. > exfat not. ext2 is very stable, tested and well aged. exfat is some > fuse something crap. New, hardly tested and unstable as it gets. > > And why use exfat if you use linux? It is just not needed at all. I agree. If you want to transport something between Linux systems, use ext2/3 and use "mount" options to handle the permission issues. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! JAPAN is a WONDERFUL at planet -- I wonder if we'll gmail.com ever reach their level of COMPARATIVE SHOPPING ...