For removable drives and SSDs, F2FS won't see broad adoption for a little bit
and the jury is still out if Apple or Microsoft includes it in their
operating systems. I'm still gunning for that to get wide support and we
shall see if Samsung can pull it off.
Another format for removable devices I have seen lately is exFAT, which was
released along the time of Windows Vista and even though it is patent
encumbered out the wazoo, it has been cropping up lately on devices and even
Apple's latest OSX operating system.
With that in mind, I noticed that a GPLv3 licensed free software
implementation of exFAT was released for GNU/Linux and a stable version for
your Trisquel version can be downloaded at
https://launchpad.net/~relan/+archive/exfat
It is part of the "fuse" branch which I believe brought over NTFS to
GNU/Linux and I am wondering if it worth installing. It sucks that Microsoft
pushes their implementations on everything besides their operating systems,
but any type of support is good in the rare chance that we run across it.
Kinda like RAR v3 that now has free support thanks to unar.
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