On Thursday, April 1, 2010, 18:13:24, Maxim Masiutin wrote: > If you have suggestions, or have found an error, please let me know.
NTFS is a bad idea for portable drives for several reasons: - Windows doesn't let you format removable drives as NTFS unless you enable caching for those drives, which means you will lose data if you don't unmount the volume (Safely remove hardware) before pulling it out - ACLs/permissions: a nightmare waiting to happen, especially if you're an administrator on one machine, but regular user on another - portability: NTFS can be safely written only on Windows - Linux and OS X by default only support read-only access (or sometimes not even that) > Another great advantage of NTFS compared to FAT32 is the option to > have an unlimited message base. For FAT disks, maximum volume of > message folder is 2Gb, while users with NTFS are not limited by such bounds. Is this a Voyager limitation? FAT32 supports file sizes up to 4GB-1B. Microsoft has a new filesystem for removable drives, exFAT, but it also suffers from some of the same problems as NTFS (and additionally, it needs a driver to be installed on XP before it's recognised at all). -- < Jernej Simončič ><><><><>< http://eternallybored.org/ > [ The Bat! 4.2.33.8 on Windows 7 6.1.7600. ] All warranty and guarantee clauses are voided by payment of the invoice. -- Klipstein's Lament ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 4.2.33.9 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
