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: - 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
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